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cilia and bristles ; thorax clothed almost entirely with hair 
and without crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen 
with some rough hah' at base of dorsum but without crests. 
Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex which is 
produced and acute, the termen excised to vein 4 where it is 
angled, then oblique, slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomos- 
ing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 
with the termen angled at vein 4 and slightly crenulate ; 
the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 
angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 0, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Xantkanoinis aurantiaca, n. sp. 
o'. Head, thorax, and abdomen deep orange-yellow, the 
thorax irrorated with a few black scales ; antennae and palpi 
rufous ; pectus white ; legs rufous, the tibiae with some 
white on inner side and at extremities, the tarsi white with 
dark broAvn spots above ; the anal tuft with brown mixed, 
the ventral surface irrorated with a few black scales, whitish 
at base. Fore wing orange-yellow tinged with rufous, 
irrorated with a few black scales, the terminal half slightly 
striated with red-brown, the costal edge white ; a diffused 
erect rufous antemedial line ; a black point on a round 
rufous spot iu middle of cell ; reniform indistinctly defined 
by diffused rufous, rather elliptical ; postmedial line double, 
red-brown filled in with violaceous white, oblique from costa 
towards apex to inner margin beyond middle, the outer line 
less distinct, a white patch slightly tinged with brown and 
irrorated with black beyond it at apex and a white and brown 
point on vein 7 ; a violaceous white terminal line ; cilia deep 
red-brown with some violaceous white mixed. Hind wing 
orange-yellow to the postmedial line with the costal area 
and inner margin white, the terminal area purplish red-brown 
with violaceous white suffusion beyond the postmedial line, 
irrorated with a few' black scales ; a slight rufous discoidal 
spot ; a double red-brown line filled in with violaceous white 
from costa beyond middle to tornus ; the inner line darker 
and somewhat diffused on inner side ; an incurved subterminal 
series of three white spots defined by fuscous between vein 3 
and tornus with a point above them on vein 4 ; a fine viola- 
ceous white terminal line ; cilia dark brown mixed with some 
violaceous white. Underside of both wings ochreous yellow 
faintly striated with red-brown and irrorated with black, 
the inner areas white ; fore wing with white subterminal spot 
on costa ; hind wing with black discoidal point. 
Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak {Pratt), 1 Arfak Mts., 
Ninay Valley {Pratt), 1 d type. Exp. 40 48 millim. 
