NOVITATES ZoologiCab XXV. 1918. 93 



UESCEIPTIONS OF NEW C4ENEEA AND SPECIES OF AMATIDAE, 

 LITHOSIDAE, AND NOCTUIDAE. 



By sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Baet., F.Z.S., Etc. 



^T^HE following paper forms a tenth .supplement to tlie first thii'teen volumes 

 -L of the Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phal'icuoe in the Britisli Museum, 1898 

 to 1913, which have appeared in the Ann. Mag. A'at. Hist, from time to time 

 between 1901 and 1914. 



The numbers before the species indicate theu- position in the classification 

 adopted in those vohuiies. The types are in the British Museum. 



AMATIDAE. 



107(/. Amata tulvibasalis n. sp. 



Forewing of male with the whole terminal area and hindwing with the outer 

 half clothed with rough scales on underside ; the forewing with vein 1 forking 

 towards termen. 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-fulvous ; antennae black-brown, 

 white at tips ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown, the fore 

 coxae and femora orange-fulvous. Forewing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 dark ; a dark-brown diseoidal spot, produced as a streak above vem 5 to the 

 terminal band, which expands broadly on apical area and mto a large jjatch 

 below vein 3 ; some orange-fulvous on base of inner margin. Hind^\ ing orange- 

 fulvous at base with hyaline spots below the cell and above base of vein 2, the 

 terminal half grey-brown. 



$. Head and dorsum of thorax black-browu ; abdomen black-brown at 

 extremity ; forewing with the margins black-brown, the discal spot not connected 

 by a streak with the terminal band, which is very narrow between veins 5 and 

 3 and towards tornus ; hindwing with the terminal half black-brown. 



Hab. Cameroons, Ja R., Bitje (Bates), 1 J, 1 $ tyjie. Exp. 28 mill. 



171a. Amata congenita n. sp. 



<J. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown, the back of head with orange- 

 red band, the abdomen with orange-red dorsal patch at base, band on 5th seg- 

 ment and lateral spots between them ; antennae blackish, white at tips ; pectus 

 with orange-red lateral patches ; hind tarsi with the 1st joint white. Fore- 

 wing grey-brown with yellowish hyaline patches, a wedge-shaped patch below 

 base of cell, quadrate patches in and below end of cell, spot above base of vein 

 2, and postmedial band formed by four large spots between vems 7 and 3, the 

 lowest extending to near termen. Hindwing yellowish hyaline, the veins, cell, 

 costal and terminal areas grey-brown, the grey-brown terminal band angled 

 inwards at vein 2 and narrowing to tornus. 



$. The brown areas much darker, the thorax behind the tegulae and 

 abdomen glossed with leaden blue. 



Hab. Madras, NUgiris, Ouchterloni Valley, 3,500 ft. (Andrewes) 1 <J type, 

 Shevaroy Hills (Campbell), 1 ?. Exp. 16 mUl. 



