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3rd long and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons smooth ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 
with hair only and without crests ; tibiae fringed with long 
hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing 
with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 
9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 
cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of 
wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just 
above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 
cell near base only. 
Genus LYNCESTIS. 
Lyncestis, Walk. xi. 632 (1857) amphix, Cram. 
Jarasana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 132 (1882) amphix, Cram. 
Lyncestis t'uscifusata, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with red-brown, 
the tegulse with black medial line ; antennae blackish except 
towards base ; palpi fuscous towards tips ; abdomen whitish 
irrorated with blackish and suffused with fuscous at base, 
sides, and towards extremity of ventral surface. Fore wing 
fuscous brown mixed with some grey, the costal area white 
irrorated with brown and grey, some whitish at base of inner 
margin and on termen towards tornus ; indistinct rather 
diffused curved brown antemedial, medial and postmedial 
lines, and traces of a waved whitish subterminal line. Hind 
wing semihyaline white, the terminal area broadly black- 
brown to vein 2. Underside white ; fore wing with the 
terminal area tinged with pale red- brown and with broad 
black subterminal band between veins 7 and 2 ; hind wing 
with broad black band from below costa towards apex to 
termen at vein 2, the area beyond it tinged with pale red- 
brown. 
Hab. New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1 $ type. Exp. 48 
millim. 
Genus GERESPA. 
Gerespa, Walk. xiii. 1168 (1857) prolata. Walk. 
Coronta, Walk. xiii. 1170 (1857) .. strigifera Walk. 
Gerespa punctifinis, n. sp. 
Melipotis comprehendens, Drace, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 356 (part.), 
nec Walk. 
U Head and thorax black-brown tinged with grey and 
slightly mixed with whitish ; pectus and legs white mixed 
with brow, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 
grey-brown, the ventral surface white, irrorated with brown 
towards extremity. Fore wing black-brown mixed with red- 
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