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NOCTUIDA;. 
and with a series of black points except towards base, a black 
terminal line from apex to vein 4 where there is a black spot ; 
hind wing white with a faint pinkish tinge, a pink discoidal 
spot, medial spot on costa, postmedial line excurved below 
costa, series of black-brown points before termen from apex to 
vein 2 and slight pink mark on termen at submedian fold. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with small black spot on the outer post- 
medial line at submedian fold. 
Hab. Bismarck Arch., Admiralty Is. {Meek), 2 <$, 1 $ 
type ; Solomon Is., New Georgia I. {Meek), 1 $. Exp. 22 
millim. 
Olulis albilineata, n. sp. 
§. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey ; 
abdomen white tinged with red- brown ; palpi red-brown 
mixed with some whitish, the 3rd joint whitish with blackish 
ring at middle ; legs bright red-brown ; pectus and ventral 
surface of abdomen white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 
white suffused and irrorated with purple-brown ; inwardly 
oblique white subbasal and antemedial lines defined on outer 
side by diffused dark brown ; a white discoidal bar defined 
on outer side by dark brown ; postmedial line white defined 
on outer side by a slightly waved dark brown line, inwardly 
oblique and very slightly excurved beyond the cell ; sub- 
terminal line white defined on outer side by a dark brown 
line, oblique, bent outwards to apex and very slightly incurved 
below vein 3 ; a rather punctiform dark brown line before 
termen defined on inner side by white and a fine dark terminal 
line. Hind wing creamy white, the costal and terminal 
areas faintly tinged with purplish pink. Underside of fore 
wing chestnut-red irrorated with red -brown on basal half ; 
hind wing white, the costal area suffused and irrorated with 
chestnut-red, a brown discoidal point and a faint rufous post- 
medial line from costa to vein 4, angled outwards below costa. 
Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Mimika R. {Wollaston), 1 $, 
Wataikwa R. {Wollaston), 2 $ type. Exp. 24 millim. 
Genus ACYGNATHA, nov. 
Type, A. atrapex, Hmpsn. {Raparna), Moths Ind. iii. p. 25 
(1895). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to well above vertex of head and moderately scaled 
in front, the 3rd very long, with slight tuft of scales in front 
towards tip which is acuminate ; irons smooth, with slight 
ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 
ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 
metathorax with boss-like crest of large scales ; tibiae smoothly 
scaled ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 
