Genus Azelina Guen.

Azelina gallaria Walker, subsp. venustula nov. Plate 2, Fig. 1.

Expanse of the forewing, 31 mm. Forewings with pale cream base colour suffused with greenish brown and orange-brown scales giving an overall general colour of iridescent pale creamy grey; costa near base bright yellow banded with crimson, remainder of costa white turning to pink towards apex and with five broad bars of mixed black and crimson scales; basal streak suggested by a shading of pink and dark grey scales; basal line absent or possibly included in the grey shading; first line of mixed orange-brown and greenish brown scales, sharply indented towards the apex, after which it zigzags across the wing with two broad but smaller indentations towards the termen; median shade arising from broadest bar on the costa, but soon petering out to a thin wavy line of chestnut coloured scales; orbicular faintly suggested by a group of pale pink scales; reniform very faintly suggested by a shading of very pale grey and pink scales; second line almost straight passing diagonally from costa to dorsum, narrow, of bright chestnut coloured scales, darker where the veins are crossed, and bordered along the outer edge with a narrow line of white scales; apical patch dark greenish grey with basal area very dark reddish brown and sprinkled with dark brown and black scales; there is a small black dot just external to the median shade and level with the reniform; alongside the second line just above the tornus there are two very conspicuous rounded black patches; subterminal line absent; all veins, especially towards the termen, picked out with white scales; cilia, from apex to dorsum, of elongated club-shaped scales but along dorsum these are more attenuated passing into true cilia: along apical patch cilia are reddish-brown basally, yellow distally: just below apical patch cilia are yellow, after which they change to greyish fawn basally, pale cream or white distally. Hindwings deeper cream than forewings, suffused with crimson, black and whitish scales giving an overall colour of yellowish to greenish grey: the crimson suffusion is concentrated around the apex and termen giving a beautiful crimson glow to this area of the wing: whitish scales concentrated more in the basal posterior region, which is also speckled with groups of black and crimson scales; the hindwing is bisected by a dark line passing from a point about two-thirds along the costa to the tornus: near the costa this line is deep crimson, changing to chestnut about halfway along its length and again to crimson just before the tornus is reached; just above the centre of the wing a broad shaded line of crimson sprinkled