438 NOCXUIBiE. 



white; abdomen white suffused with rufous and wiih fuscous sub- 

 dorsal patches ou 2ud to 5th segments, the ventral surface dark 

 brown towards extremity. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused 

 with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, some yellow-green 

 suffusion on costal area beyond middle and on terminal area above 

 middle and tornus ; an oblique white patch with its outer edge 

 defined by a waved black line from base of costa to inner margin 

 before middle, a green patch near its extremity above inner 

 margin ; antemedial line blackish, dentate and oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then incurved to the basal patch ; a slight dark 

 medial line, oblique to below the cell and slightly waved towards 

 costa ; reniform greenish defined by dark brown and with dark 

 point in centre, pointed above; postmedial line strongly angled 

 outwards and defined above by white below costa, then oblique, 

 minutely dentate and with white band on its inner side ; a 

 small dark spot on costa before the subterminal line, which is 

 dark brown defined on outer side by white, minutely dentate 

 below costa, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at discal 

 fold, excurved and minutely dentate at middle and incurved m sub- 

 median interspace ; a black-brown patch at apex with its outer 

 edge dentate at veins 8 and 7 with white suffusion below it and a 

 dark streak on vein 6 ; a series of small black lunules defined ou 

 inner side by white just before termen ; cilia white and brown with 

 a series of small black lunules at middle. Hind wing white tinged 

 with ochreous, the terminal area fuscous, narrowing to a point at 

 tornus and with its inner edge emitting short black streaks on the 

 veins ; a fine waved white line just before termen ; cilia ochreous 

 white tinged with brown and with fuscous points towards apex ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown and with 

 black discoidal spot. 



2 . Thorax with more white ; fore wing with the postmedial line 

 more strongly dentate on inner half, the white before it confined to 

 a patch beyond the cell. 



Bab. Epw JN. Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), 2 S , Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 

 1 (5,1$. J^'Vp. 32-40 millim. Type t in Coll. Bethune-Eaker. 



6786. Risoba prominens. 



Eisoba prominens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 329 ; Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. 



p. 399. 

 Bisoba vialis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 91, pi. 4. f. 1 (1881). 



S . Head and thorax red- brown mixed with some white ; palpi 

 and frons greyish brown ; tegulse greyish brown irrorated with a 

 few red-brown scales and with dark tips ; patagia with white outer 

 edge ; pectus whitish tinged with cupreous ; fore and mid tibiae 

 black-brown, the tarsi brownish slightly ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men whitish irrorated with brown and tinged with rufous at base ; 

 subdorsal fuscous patches on 2nd, 3rd. and 4th segments with an 

 oblique while streak below them ; the ventral surface- ochreous 



