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NOCTUIDJB. 
thorax and abdomen white mixed with red- brown, the latter 
grey- brown towards extremity ; antennae pale brown ; palpi 
rufous, white at tips ; pectus, legs and ventral surface of 
abdomen white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grey- 
brown thickly striated with crimson, the medial part of 
terminal area crimson, a broad greenish white fascia on inner 
margin striated with grey-brown tinged with crimson ; a 
crimson discoidal lunule ; a rather diffused oblique crimson 
line from termen just below apex to vein 2 beyond middle ; 
cilia red-brown, tipped with pure white on apical half. Hind 
wing pale red-brown ; a whitish patch striated with red-brown 
on terminal area between vein 3 and submedian fold ; cilia 
pure white at extreme tips. Underside of fore wing pale 
red- brown, the costa and terminal area to vein 4 whitish 
striated with red- brown ; hind wing whitish tinged and striated 
with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red -brown 
except towards apex. 
Hcib. N. Borneo, 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 
Genus AVITTONIA, nov. 
Type, A. albidentata. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, broadly scaled in front and fringed 
with hair behind except towards base, the 3rd long and 
smoothly scaled ; frons smooth with tuft of hair above ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of female almost simple ; thorax 
clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; tibiae 
moderately fringed with hah’ ; abdomen with some rough 
hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with 
the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenu- 
late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 
angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with the tornus obliquely truncate ; 
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. 
Avittonia albidentata, n. sp. 
Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; antennae 
dark brown, white in front towards base ; frontal tuft whitish 
above, dark brown at sides ; palpi chestnut-red with some 
blackish at extremity of 2nd joint behind, the 3rd joint 
white with black band near extremity ; legs chestnut-red, 
the fore tibiae pure white, black at base and with black spot 
near extremity, the tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; 
abdomen dark red-brown, the ventral surface white tinged 
with rufous. Fore wing deep chestnut-red, the costal edge 
with alternating white and dark brown streaks : a black 
