250 NOCTDIDiE. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male bipectiaate with long branches to three-fourths 

 length, of female with short branches. 



A. Hind wing orange. 



a. Fore wing with yellow streak above vein 5 from reniform 

 to termen, the postmedial line incurved and not dentate 

 below vein 5 cebea. 



h. Fore wing without yellow streak above vein 5, the post- 

 medial line incurved and dentate below vein 4 gHseola. 



B. Hind wing not orange. 



a. Fore wing with curved rufous line just before termen replicans. 



b. Fore wing without rufous line just before termen. 



a\ Fore wing deep purplish red-biown suffused with 



violaceous grey obliterans. 



b^. Fore wing ochreous more or less completely suffused 



with olive-fuscous ancemica. 



3038. Ancara cebea. (Plate CXIV. tig. 21.) 

 Ancaroides Jcebea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 19G (1906). 



S ' Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreons white 

 especially on vertex of head and tegulas ; palpi in front and 3rd 

 joint ochreous ; pectus with the hair yellowish ; abdomen orange- 

 3'ollow, the extremity tinged with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing deep red-brown suffused in parts with black-brown ; 

 subbasal line double filled in with rufous and with oblique rufous 

 streak from its lower extremity to inner margin ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, rufous, angled outwards in cell and above inner margin 

 and inwards in submedian fold ; claviform represented by a black- 

 brown patch with slight greyish patch beyond it ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by rufous, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 with black-brown centre, a fine yellow streak from it to termen 

 above vein 5 ; traces of a dark medial line, oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then parallel to postmedial line, which is double 

 filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below costa, oblique to 

 vein 5, then obliquely incurved ; subterminal line almost obsolete 

 with patches of blackish suffusion between it and postmedial line 

 from vein 5 to inner margin ; a terminal series of small black 

 lumiles. Hind wing orange-yellow, the terminal area deep reddish 

 brown, broad at costa, narrowing to a point attornus ; the underside 

 with small black discoidal spot. 



Hah. Bit. New Guinea, Mt. Kebca, Ekeikei, Aroa R., type f 6 

 in Coll. Bethune-Baker ; Solomon Is., Bougainville {MeeTc), 1 cJ • 

 Exp. 50 millim. 



3039. Ancara griseola. (Plate CXIV. fig. 22.) 



Ancaroides f/riseola, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 197 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some rufous ; 

 pectus and base of legs with some yellow ; abdomen yellow with 

 dorsal black-brown fascia, the crests blackish, the anal tuft mixed 

 with brown. Fore wing black-brown mixed with some rufous ; 

 subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 



