NOCTTTIDAi. 
1-7 (i 
middle, then again oblique ; an oblique deep red-brown 
shade from apex ; a series of golden silvery spots before the 
fine red-brown line defining the narrow yellow terminal 
band ; cilia white chequered with red -brown. Hind wing 
pale purplish pink, the cilia white. Underside of fore wing 
pink, the inner area white ; hind wing white, the costal area 
tinged with pink towards base, a pink discoidal spot and 
diffused postmedial and subterminal lines, the latter slightly 
excurved at middle. 
Hnb. Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 1 £ type. Exp. 
18 millim. 
Tipasa boopis, n. sp. 
rj. Head and tegulse pale red-brown, the latter with choco- 
late-brown dorsal streak and some black scales at tips ; 
thorax white mixed with some red-brown ; abdomen white 
with some purplish pink on dorsum except at base and ex- 
tremity ; antennae tinged with blackish except towards base ; 
palpi white with some red-brown scales, the 2nd joint on inner 
side with red-brown band at extremity and the tuft of hair 
above deep red-brown, the 3rd joint with black ring near 
tip ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen white, the 
fore and mid tibiae tinged with red-brown, the fore tarsi 
ringed with black towards extremity, the mid and hind tarsi 
banded with fuscous. Fore wing white suffused in parts with 
rufous and irrorated with black ; subbasal line slight, black 
defined on outer side by white, curved, from costa to vein 1, 
a minute black streak beyond it below costa ; antemedial fine 
fine, black defined on outer side by white, angled outwards below 
costa and at median nervure, then oblique ; reniform large, 
elliptical, with white annulus defined by black scales, its centre 
rufous defined by black scales ; postmedial fine white defined 
on inner side by black scales and with small diffused black 
spots beyond it in the interspaces, incurved below vein 3 ; 
subterminal line white, with short black streaks beyond it 
above and below vein 4 and black points above vein 6 and 
below 1 , waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 
series of black bars before termen defined on inner side by white ; 
a terminal series of red strife ; cilia yellowish at base with 
black line at middle, the tips white with some black at apex 
and vein 4. Hind wing purplish pink ; postmedial line 
whitish with black striga on its inner side at inner margin ; 
a very slightly waved white subterminal line from vein 4 to 
tornus, with slight black mark before it at submedian fold and 
black bar beyond it at tornus ; a series of small black spots 
before termen to vein 2, defined on inner side by white ; cilia 
white. Underside white ; fore wing suffused with purplish 
pink except on basal and inner areas, a red postmedial bar 
