NOVITATEe ZOOLOOICAE XXII. 1915. 14* 



NEW PALAEARCTIC AND EASTERN NOCTUIDAE IN THE 



TRING MUSEUM.* 



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



1. Batracharta albistrigosata spec nov. 



Forewing : gre3--brown, thickly sprinkled with coarse black dots and traversed 

 by white interlacing strigae ; basal area blackish, its outer edge oblique but diiFuse, 

 preceded and followed in cell by dull red-brown patches, the veins through it from 

 base dotted with snow-white, the costa marked with white oblique strigae ; 

 subterminal line pale, difl'use, brownish ochreous, lunulate-dentate, the veins 

 before it reddish ; terminal area beyond it narrow, blackish fuscous, swollen on 

 each fold ; fringe pinkish olive. 



Ilindwing : pale brownish grey, with a difl'use dark terminal line ; the costal 

 area white, except at apex ; fringe yellowish white. 



Underside greyish ochreous ; in the forewing suffused with fuscous, leaving 

 the inner margin for two-thirds white below submedian fold ; the costa ochreous 

 striated with brownish grey ; a round difl'use dark cellspot ; hindwing ochreous 

 with a faint brownish flush in parts ; a large, round black cellspot. 



Face, pectus, and legs black ; the tarsi white-dotted ; tegnlae and patagia dark 

 brown mixed with reddish ; dorsum like hindwing ; palpi brown with blackish 

 shades, the terminal segment pale ochreous ; venter ochreous, tinged with brown 

 on anal half; with a white dot at middle of hinder edge of each segment. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



2 (J (J from the Khasia Hills, Assam, taken by native collector in May and 

 June 189G. 



2. Batracharta ochreipennis spec. nov. 



Foretving : like irrorata Hmps., but rather paler and brighter ; the dark 

 terminal area preceded by a difl'use pale wavy band as in the preceding species ; 

 the upper jsrojectiou of outer line above median vein more prominent ; the white 

 dotting stronger. 



Ilindwing : pale ochreous, with the veins dark and thickened towards termen ; 

 the dark cellspot showing through. 



Underside ochreous ; in the forewing fuscous grey between subcostal vein and 

 submedian fold, below which the inner margin is white throughout ; the outer line 

 grey and dentate at costa ; termen ochreous, with a line of dark lunules ; fringe 

 brown at tips ; hindwing pure ochreous ; cellspot oval, large and black. 



Head, thorax, pectus, and forelegs black ; palpi black-brown, the third 

 segment ochreous ; dorsum and venter ochreous, flushed with brown. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 S from the Ninay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dutch New Guinea, 3500 ft., 

 February and March 1909. 



* The manuscript of this article was among the papers left by the late Mr. W. Warren. — K. J. 



