TTPASODE8. TIPASA. 
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dark brown ringed with white. Fore wing yellow suffused 
with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown ; a subbasal 
black-brown point on costa and small spot in the cell ; an 
oblique antemedial series of black-brown points ; two black- 
brown discoidal points ; postmedial line red -brown, rather 
oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique to inner margin at the 
antemedial line ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined on 
outer side by brown, minutely lunulate ; a series of black- 
brown points before termen ; a fine deep crimson terminal 
line ; cilia yellowish at base, with fine crimson line at middle 
and white tips. Hind wing purplish pink ; a rather maculate 
sinuous white medial line and a similar postmedial fine ex- 
curved beyond lower angle of cell ; cilia white. Underside of 
fore wing purplish pink, the costa whitish mixed with rufous, 
a dark terminal line, rather diffused on apical half and with 
short dark streaks before it in the interspaces with some white 
before them ; hind wing white, the costal area irrorated with 
red-brown, the inner area faintly tinged with pink, a minute 
black-brown discoidal lunule, minutely waved pink postmedial 
fine, similar but indistinct subterminal line, series of small 
black-brown spots before termen, and fine red-brown terminal 
line. 
Hub. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare R., Biagi [Meek), 1 9 type. 
Exp. IS millim. 
Genus TIPASA. Type . 
Tipasa, Walk, xxvii. 129 (1863) nebulosella , Walk. 
Tipasa aurata, n. sp. 
Head and thorax white mixed with bright rufous ; 
abdomen white suffused with rufous except at base, leaving 
slight white segmental lines ; antennae rufous, ringed with 
black towards base ; palpi white suffused with rufous, the 2nd 
joint with red-brown bands near base and extremity, the 3rd 
with brown ring near extremity ; pectus, legs and ventral 
surface of abdomen white suffused with rufous, the tarsi 
ringed with white. Fore wing rufous ; a deeper rufous patch 
at base of costa ; the basal inner area golden silvery ; a 
golden silvery patch from discal fold to vein 1 before the red- 
brown antemedial line which is oblique to below submedian 
fold, then inwardly oblique, some golden silvery beyond it 
below the cell ; a golden silvery patch at end of cell defined by 
deeper rufous suffusion except above ; postmedial line deep 
rufous with some golden silvery before it on inner area, oblique 
to discal fold, then inwardly oblique ; golden silvery patches 
on costal area, at middle and on inner area before the dark 
brown subterminal fine which is oblique to vein 6, excurved at 
