55 S 
noctuida:. 
costa, then inwardly oblique and waved ; orbicular pure 
white defined by black, small, round ; two black discoidal 
points ; medial line blackish, excurved below costa, then 
inwardly oblique ; postmedial line faint, double, bent outwards 
below costa, their inwardly oblique and slightly waved ; a 
small subterminal black spot below vein 7 ; a rather lunulate 
black terminal line. Hind wing white tinged with purplish 
grey except towards base and irrorated with black ; a blackish 
antemedial line ; a black point at lower angle of cell ; a macu- 
late blackish postmedial line, excurved beyond lower angle of 
cell ; a faint incomplete rather dentate rufous subterminal 
line ; a rather lunulate black terminal line. Underside of 
fore wing white suffused with red-brown and irrorated with 
blackish ; hind wing white irrorated with blackish, the 
markings as above but the subterminal line replaced by 
some blackish points. 
flab. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 $ type. Exp. 
30 mi Him. 
Genus MEPANTADREA, nov. 
Tvpe, M. simia, Saalm. ( Zethes ), Lep. Madag. p. 474, f. 155 
(1891). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to well above vertex of head, moderately scaled in 
front and slightly fringed with hah' behind towards extremity, 
the 3rd long and fringed with rough hair in front and behind ; 
frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male with slight bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed 
with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibiae 
moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough 
hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with 
the costa highly arched towards apex which is produced and 
acute, the termen oblique below vein 4, not crenulate ; veins 
3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 
10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with the termen produced to a hook at vein 4 ; 
the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 
angle ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus HYPOSEMANSIS. 
'Type. 
Hyposemansis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iii. p. 2 (1895) singha, Guen. 
Hyposemansis lasiopliora, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown mixed 
with whitish ; antennae dark brown ; palpi rufous and whitish, 
the 2nd joint with red-brown rings at base and extremity ; 
pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated 
