470 UOCTCID-E. 



white spots ; tliorax rc-d-browii mixed with crimson and yellow; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae yellow; abdomen white, the 

 basal crest yellow and crimson. Eore wing with the costal area 

 yellow, the basal area yellow suffused with crimson and with a 

 purple-brown fascia below costa and a large diamond-shaped ante- 

 medial silvery white patch extending from subcostal nervure to 

 inner margin, bounded on outer side by a crimson lino with an 

 oblique yellow line beyond it from the costal area to median 

 nervure; medial area purple-brown emitting angles to just below 

 costa beyond the anteraedial and before the postmedial line ; an 

 oblique silvery white postmedial spot defined by crimson below the 

 costa, tlie puQctiform black postmedial line arising from its lower 

 edge towards which it is indistinctly double, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and bent inwards below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 blackish, straight, not extending to costa, a small silvery white 

 wedge-shaped mark defined by crimson before it below the costa, a 

 small spot below vein 6 and a faint oblique yelloAvish mark in sub- 

 median interspace; the termen and cilia yellow. Hind wing with 

 the basal half white, the terminal half yellow faintly tinged with 

 crimson. Underside of fore wing yellowish white with the ante- 

 medial white patch showing through. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebca {PmU\ type t $ in Coll. 

 Bethi;ne-Baker. Exp. 32 millim. 



6819. Gahala polyspilalis. 



GahaJa iiolyspilalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1221 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 13ti. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with blood-red, the 

 vertex of head, tegulse at middle and sides and patagia with silvery 

 white patches defined by red ; palpi white at base ; pectus and legs 

 white, the fore and mid tibiae with red streaks at base, the fore 

 tarsi slightly ringed with red ; abdomen ochreous yellow, the crests 



Fig. 170. — Gahala ■polys2nlalis, S. \. 



red, the ventral surface white. Fore wing red-brown striated 

 with whitish, the terminal area below vein 3 redder ; the basal 

 area with numerous small silvery white spots defined by red and 

 larger subbasal spots below costa and cell and antcmedial spots 

 below costa, in and below cell and above inner margin ; a small 

 silvery white spot defined by red below middle of costa ; the 



