FAPUACOLA. 
407 
large, round ; antennEe of female ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibue 
moderately fringe'd with hair ; abdomen with some rough 
hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with 
the apex produced and acute, the termen oblique below 
vein 4 and 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. 
Papuacola lignicolor, n. sp. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with red- 
brown ; antennae brown, whitish above towards base ; frons 
and palpi with some crimson and blackish mixed ; fore and 
mid tibiae with some crimson mixed and blackish bands 
near extremities, the tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore 
wing grey tinged with red-brown, the inner and terminal 
areas irrorated with a few blackish scales ; small subbasal 
black-brown spots on costa and in cell ; a blackish and 
red -brown antemedial band, triangularly dilated towards 
costa and obsolescent below the cell except at vein 1 ; a 
white point on its inner edge in the cell and a waved white 
line on its outer edge in the cell with small flesh-coloured 
spot beyond it ; a small black spot on its inner edge at costa ; 
the postmedial line represented by minute black spots on 
costa and at middle of submedian fold and a slight black- 
brown spot at vein 6 further from the base, a conical blackish 
and red-brown patch beyond it on costal area extending 
nearly to the apex, with some ochreous white points at costa 
and obliquely-placed grey spots near its outer edge above 
and below vein 8 ; a slight waved brown terminal line with 
blackish points at the interspaces. Hind wing grey tinged 
with red-brown, the inner area irrorated with a few black 
and red scales except towards base ; a postmedial series of 
slight white points from vein 6 to inner margin, incurved at 
discal fold ; a slight waved brown terminal line with blackish 
points at the interspaces. Underside grey tinged with rufous 
except on terminal areas and irrorated with blackish ; both 
wings with small black discoidal spot and curved crenulate 
postmedial line, the terminal line more distinct with small 
black spots at the interspaces. 
Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 $ type ; 
Solomon Is.. Bougainville I. (Meek), in Coll. Rothschild. 
Exp. 42 millim. 
