SUBFAMILY EUTELIINAE
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Atacira olivacea sp. n


Atacira olivacea ♂ (holotype)


♀ 12mm. The forewing ground colour is pale greenish grey, traversed by blackish fasciae invested with darker green; the submarginal is multidentate, dark green, edged white irregularly distad; the postmedial is double, sinuous; the antemedial is slightly double and the medial single, both more or less straight, meeting the dorsum at right angles.

Holotype ♀. Rampayoh, nr. Labi, BRUNEI, 125m, 2.iii.1982 (T. W. Harman).

Geographical range. Borneo, Sumatra (1♂ from Aek Tarum, Gunung Malayu (Diehl)).

Habitat preference. The holotype was taken in lowland dipterocarp forest.

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