498 NocTuiBj;. 



antennoe browu, the basal joint scarlet; shoulders with scarlet 

 stripes ; fore legs brown above, the mid legs with some brown at 

 femoro-tibial joint and scarlet streak on the tibia above, the tarsi 

 brown slightly ringed with white; abdomen yellowish white. 

 Fore wing pale yellow ; the base of costa brown ; a brown discoidal 

 bar, produced above and below on both inner and outer sides like a 

 capital I and with a similarly formed scarlet discoidal striga on it. 

 Hind wing semihyaline yellowish white. 



5 . Fore wing without the bar-shaped mark at end of cell. 



Hah. Br. N, Guinea, Milne Bay {Meeh), 2 J , Babooni (Pratt), 

 1 c? , Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 3 d" , 1 $ . E.v^. 30 millim. Type f in 

 Coll. Bethune-Baker. 



Sect, II. Palpi and mid legs of male normal. 



A. Fore wing with more or less distinct transverse lines. 

 a. Fore wing yellow with hardly any green tinge. 

 a^. Fore wing with the cilia tipped with brown. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly 



angled inwards at discal fold citrina, 



b-. Fore wing with the postmedisil line not angled 



inwards at discal fold lideolaria. 



h^. Fore wing with the cilia not tipped with brown... jtavida. 

 h. Fore wing green or strongly tinged with green. 

 a^. Fore wing with the cilia dark brown ; hind wing 



suffused with purple ogovana. 



b'\ Fore wing with the cilia tipped with brown ; hind 



wing semihyaline white biplaga. 



c^. Fore wing with the cilia not tipped with brown. 

 a^. Fore wing with the costal and inner areas 



broadly wh ite ku-egeli. 



b'^. Fore wing with the costal and inner areas not 

 white. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line exourved 

 below costa, then oblique. 



0*. Fore wing with three transverse lines insulana. 



b^. Fore wing with two transverse lines vernana. 



b'. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique 

 throughout. 

 a/i. Foi-e wing with three transverse lineii ; 

 hind wing white, the termen tinged with 



brown paralkla. 



b^. Fore wing with two transverse lines ; hind 



wing pale yellow subviridis. 



B. Fore wing without transverse lines. 



a. Fore wing with brown terminal band. 



a}. Fore wing with the terminal band broad ; hind 



wing suffused with brown latimargo. 



b^. Fore wing with the terminal band narrow ; hind 



wing semihyaline white citpreoviindis. 



b. Fore wing without brown terminal band. 



«!. Fore wing olive-green suffused with reddish ; hind 



wing tinged with red glaucescens. 



b^. Fore wing green with more or less developed 

 patch of pink suffusion on disk ; hind wing 

 tinged with brown roseifera. 



