AVITTONIA. — AYITTA. 
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point in base of cell ; faint sinuous subbasal and antemedial 
blue-grey shades ; a white point at upper angle of cell ; a 
faint patch of blue -grey suffusion beyond the cell and a spot 
in submedian interspace below end of cell ; postmedial line 
slight, blue-grey, dentate and interrupted, excurved below 
costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and oblique below 
vein 4, another slight somewhat dentate blue -grey line beyond 
it, inwardly oblique below costa and slightly excurved at 
middle ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by dark 
brown, crenulate with slight somewhat dentate white marks 
in the interspaces followed by short dark brown streaks, 
white at tips, not reaching the costa ; a terminal series of 
white points ; cilia dark brown, chequered with whitish at 
tips and with white spot at apex. Hind wing dark red- 
brown with a deep chestnut-red patch beyond middle between 
vein 4 and submedian fold, and the termen deep chestnut-red 
to submedian fold ; postmedial white points on veins 3 and 2 
and some whitish irroration above and below submedian 
fold, with traces of a minutely dentate bluish white line 
beyond it from vein 4 to inner margin ; a subterminal line 
between discal and submedian folds, white defined on inner 
side by dark brown, and with slight somewhat dentate white 
marks beyond it in the interspaces followed by some dark 
brown outwardly defined by minute dentate white marks ; 
a terminal series of white points ; cilia dark brown, chequered 
with whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing grey-brown, 
the costal and postmedial areas redder brown ; hind wing 
pale grey-brown with sinuous brown medial line from below 
costa to submedian fold, curved rather diffused postmedial 
line, and white subterminal line defined on each side by 
diffused brown. 
Hab. Singapore {Ridley), 1 $ type. Exp. 50 millim. 
Genus AVITTA. 
Type. 
Avitta, Walk. xv. 1674 (1858) subsignans, Walk. 
Oroba, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool.vii. p. 81 (1864) subsignans, Walk. 
Asta, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 170 (1864) quadrilinea, Walk, 
Pantura, Moore, Lep Ceyl. iii. p. 247 (1885) ophiusalis, Walk. 
Imleanga, Lucas, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xvi. p. 83 (1901) lunifera, Druce. 
Avitta ionomesa, n. sp. 
Head and thorax pale dull rufous ; antennae and palpi 
grey-brown ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ; 
abclomen grey-brown, the ventral surface brownish white. 
Fore wing golden-cupreous suffused with brown ; an incurved 
grey-white antemedial line from just below costa to vein 1 
an elliptical red-brown discoidal spot surrounded by a large 
patch of violaceous white suffusion ; the bases of veins 3, 4 
slightly streaked with white ; postmedial line grey-white, 
