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Show 1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIN^E. 221 SECT. I. Antennae of male almost simple. (1) NOORDA IGNEALIS, n. sp. Bright yellow; head, thorax, and abdomen suffused with fiery red in parts ; palpi at base and rings on abdomen towards extremity, pectus, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing with the costal area fiery red, the costa itself dark; dentate subbasal, medial, and postmedial lines, the last two oblique, the 2nd expanding into a discoidal spot, the last slightly excurved between veins 7 and 3; terminal area red, leaving a yellow edge to postmedial line; a diffused purplish-fuscous terminal band ; cilia Avhite, black at apex and below middle. Hind Aving with the terminal area purplish, narrowing to tornus ; cilia white, blackish at apex and middle. Hab. Fergusson I., N. Guinea ; Cooktown, Queensland (Meek). Exp. 16 mm. Types in Coll. Bothschild and B.M. (2)f NOORDA ESMERALDA, n. sp. Emerald-green ; head whitish ; palpi brown at sides ; antennae fulvous ; hind wing greenish white, the termen green. Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus) ; Venezuela, Aroa. Exp. 36 mm. SECT. II. Antennae of male with long cilia. (3)tNooRDA FESSALIS SAvinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 459, pi. 41. f. 13. W . Africa ; Aden ; India ; Burma ; Andamans. fAutocharis amethystina Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 149. (4)*NOORDA SINUALIS, n. sp. 2 . Head and thorax fuscous ; abdomen banded fuscous and white. Fore wing with the basal half of costal area suffused with fuscous ; some black scales at base of inner margin; the antemedial line represented by some black scales in and below cell and on inner margin ; the postmedial line sinuous, angled imvards below costa and outwards on vein 4, some diffused fuscous scales before it, and the area beyond it greyish fuscous with a sinuous subterminal line Avith diffused black on its inner side ; cilia pale reddish brown. Hind Aving hyaline, with fuscous terminal band narrowing from costa to vein 1. Hab. Natal, Weenen. Exp. 16 mm. Type in Coll. Bothschild. Type. (5)fNooRDA BLITEALIS Wlk. xix. 979. Aden ; India ; Ceylon. fScopula subjectalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1472. (6) NOORDA MARGARITALIS, n. sp. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi black; anal tuft blackish. Fore Aving pearly Avdiite ; a bright red fascia on costa, terminating at middle in a triangular patch with its apex conjoined to outer area; the outer area brown, defined by a sinuous black line on inner side, Avith a broad silvery purple band on it |