192 
N0CTUIDJ2. 
with black ; antennae brown ; palpi red-brown, the basal 
crest whitish ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen 
white suffused with red-brown. Fore wing white tinged with 
red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, the costal edge 
black towards base ; a subbasal black point in the cell ; in- 
distinct curved interrupted dark antemedial and medial 
lines ; an elliptical white discoidal spot defined by black ; 
postmedial line indistinct, formed by diffused brown scales, 
excurved below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and 
incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on 
costa ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined on inner 
side by diffused dark brown, slightly excurved below vein 7 
and at middle ; a terminal series of blackish bars. Hind 
wing white faintly tinged with red -brown, a slight brown 
terminal line. Underside white ; fore wing suffused with 
red brown ; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with 
red-brown, a dark discoidal striga and faint curved brown 
postmedial line. 
Hab. New Britain, Kinigunang ( Ribbe ), 1 $ type. Exp. 
12 millim. 
Genus PARAPADNA, nov. 
Type, P. zonophora, Turner (Anachrostis). Tr. R. Soc. Austr. 
xxxii. p. 71 (1908). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint up- 
turned to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind at extremity, the 3rd short, 
porrect, thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with slight ridge of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male serrate 
and fasciculate ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 
and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen with 
dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the costa slightly 
arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen evenly 
curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 
cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8 and 10 
stalked; 9 absent; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 
about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully 
developed from well above angle of cell ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 
anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 
Genus T0LPI0DES, nov. 
Type, T . fasciata, Roths. ( Narasodes ), Nov. Zool. xx. p. 224 
(1913). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
fringed with hair behind at extremity, the 3rd short and thickly 
scaled ; frons smooth, with slight ridge of hair above ; eyes 
