AXIOCTETA. 
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cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third length of 
wing ; vein 3 from just before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only. 
Genus AXIOCTETA. Type _ 
Axiocteta, Turner, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxvii. p. 105 (1902) cenoplex , Turn. 
Axiocteta inetaleuoa, n. sp. 
q . Head and thorax pale brick-red ; antennae browner ; 
pectus and legs whitish tinged with pale red, the legs slightly 
irrorated with brown ; abdomen yellowish white with some 
pale red at base of dorsum. Fore wing pale brick-red slightly 
irrorated with blackish ; an indistinct waved brownish 
antemeclial line ; a fuscous shade on discocellulars ; post- 
medial line indistinct, fuscous, incurved below vein 4 and with 
round white spot before it in submedian interspace ; a series 
of black points before termen, excurved at middle ; the 
termen and cilia redder brown. Hind wing yellowish white 
with a series of blackish points before termen from apex to 
vein 2 ; a slight brown streak on terminal part of vein 1. 
Underside of fore wing very pale red, the inner area whitish. 
Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 type. Exp. 
24 millim. 
Axiocteta eucanipima, n. sp. 
g. Head and thorax ochreous white, the vertex of head 
with rufous streak with some black scales on it, the frons 
and palpi suffused with rufous, the latter irrorated with 
black ; antennae tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous 
white suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing ochreous 
white suffused with purplish rufous except the cell, the inner 
area except towards tornus and a band beyond the post- 
meclial line except towards costa ; traces of an inwardly 
oblique rufous antemedial line ; reniform diffused purplish 
rufous with a black point in lower part, inwardly oblique, 
rather pointed at upper extremity ; postmedial line rufous, 
inwardly oblique, from below costa to vein 1 ; an indistinct 
oblique slightly curved rufous subterminal line ; a series of 
rufous points before termen ; cilia red-brown. Hind wing 
ochreous white, the termen tinged with purplish pink from 
below apex to vein 1 ; a series of slight red -brown points 
before termen between veins 7 and 2. Underside ochreous 
white ; fore wing tinged with rufous except the inner area, 
a postmedial red-brown bar from costa ; hind wing with black 
discoiclal point, a series of blackish points before termen 
from apex to vein 2. 
Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Up. Setekwa R., Snow Mts. 
(Meek), 1 g type. Exp. 32 millim. 
