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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. XIX. APRIL, 1912. No. 1. 



NEW NOCTUIDAE IN THE TRING MUSEUM, MAINLY 

 EEOM THE INDO-ORIENTAL REGION. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



Subfamily ACRONICTINAE. 



1. Canna javensis spec, no v. 



Forewiny : differs from spleiideiis Moore, which it most resembles, in the 

 following particulars : the median and inner-marginal fasciae have the brown much 

 mixed with green, especially towards costa ; the inner edge of the median fascia is 

 s(|uarely angled below the subcostal vein, and its outer edge is obliijue inwards at 

 costa instead of outwards ; both stigmata are more distinctly marked ; the onter 

 area is more uniformly green, the oblique streak from reuiform to apes not being 

 marked, and the inner-marginal band is more broadly interrupted by green towards 

 the base. 



HiiidwuKj : white, with the submarginal fuscous band mncli reduced and 

 restricted to the costal half of wing. 



Underside with the ground colour whiter, the submarginal bands reduced 

 to patches in costal half of wings ; the patch at end of cell of forewing nearly 

 obsolete. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



1 (J from Java. 



2. Acronicta nigromaculata spec. nov. 



Forewing : white, the basal two-thirds more or less wholly suffused with olive- 

 fuscous thickly speckled with black, which leaves pale spaces above median before 

 and after inner line and at base of inner margin ; costa at base, the base of cell, and 

 submedian fold black to inner line, the pale space above it extending below cell 

 to submedian fold and there white ; space beyond inner line containing the round 

 orbicular with brown centre, whitish annulus, and black outline ; inner line black 

 and double, squarely projecting outwards above vein 1 ; median line black and 

 double, waved, more or less lost in the broad dark suffusion, which also envelopes 

 the reniform, and is marked along submedian fold by blacker streaks continued 

 vaguely to termen ; outer line finely double, lunulate-dentate, followed by three 

 dark blotches, one at costa and one on each fold, connected with a row of 

 submarginal olive lunulcs, between which aud a terminal row of black stud- 

 shaped marks the narrow submarginal line lies ; fringe chequered black and 

 white. 



Hindwing : white in S , fuscous grey in ? , with dark cell-spot, outer line, veins, 

 iind terminal shade, which are all obscured in the darker ^ , 

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