January 1894. 



PSYCHE. 



NEW AND UNDESCRIBED GENERA AND SPECIES 



AFRICAN NOCTUIDAE. 



OF WEST 



HOLLAND. PJI.D., PITTSBURG]!, PENN. 



Methorasa, Moore. 



I. M. complicata, sp. nov. <J . Front 

 olivaceous-brown; collar olivaceous mar- 

 gined with pale green internallv- Upper 

 side 01' thorax and abdoir.en fuscous ; lower 

 side of thorax, abdomen, and legs dark 

 cinereous. The primaries are dark brown 

 traversed with exceedingly complicated lines 

 of pale silverj-green, \.\^ most conspicuous 

 markings being a silvery dot at the origin of 

 the radial nervule, two small subapical sil- 

 very marks upon the costa, below which is a 

 <-shaped silvery band, pointing inwardly 

 toward the base. There are narrow zigzag 

 and irregularly curved transverse basal, sub- 

 basal, median, Hmbal, and submarginal light 

 lines. The secondaries are dark fuscous 

 except on the costa near the base, where they 

 are whitish, shining. On the under side, 

 the primaries are fuliginous with the inner 

 margin near the base whitish, shining. 

 Upon the costa beyond the middle and 

 before the apex are transverse white linear 

 dots, and a short whitish linear streak about 

 the middle of the outer margin conformed 

 to the course of the third median nervule. 

 The secondaries on the under side are 

 cinereous, profusely sprinkled with blackish 

 scales, with a well Refined discal dot, a 

 curved and dentate transverse median line 

 and three or four blackish dots on the outer 

 margin near the apex. Expanse, 33 mm. 



2. M. cornus-copiae., sp. nov. $. Front, 

 collar, upper side of thorax and abdomen 

 dark chocolate-brown. Anal tuft of hairs 

 grayish. Lower side of thorax and abdomen 

 dark brown. Legs concolorous with the 

 tarsi grayish, indistinctly ringed with darker 

 brown. The fore wings are dark blackish- 



brotvn with an obscure series oi submarginal 

 paler markings; on the median area just 

 below the costa there is a narrow silvery line 

 describing a semi-circle, and below it still 

 another similar line uniting with the upper 

 line at its outer end by a narrow silvery 

 straight line, the whole roughly forming the 

 outline of a horn of plenty. The secon- 

 daries on the upper side are uniformly dark 

 fuscous. On the lower side the primaries 

 are fuliginous, slightly paler on the outer 

 margin, marked with a whitish dot at the 

 end of the cell, and a narrow whitish trans- 

 verse linear streak on the costa before the 

 apex. The secondaries are gray, with the 

 costa and an incomplete submarginal band 

 dark brown. These wings are also orna- 

 mented by a well defined sub-oval discal dot. 

 Expanse, 23 mm. 



3. M. eximia, sp. nov. J. Palpi on 

 the lower side pale cinereous. Front dark 

 brown. Collar and patagia dark brown, 

 margined externally by paler brown; upper 

 side of thorax blackish-brown; upper side of 

 abdomen fuscous. Lower side of thorax 

 gray. Legs dark gray with the ends of the 

 tibiae and the ends of the joints of the tarsi 

 whitish. Lower side of abdomen fuliginous. 

 The upper side of the primaries is dark 

 brown along the costa and from the base as 

 far as the middle of the wing. The outer 

 margin is paler brown. The dark area 

 toward the base is separated from the lighter 

 marginal area by an oblique irregularly 

 curved narrow silvery-white line, and the 

 inner dark area is broken up into spots by 

 narrow silvery sub-basal and median lines, 

 which coalesce with narrow silvery lines 

 running along the nervules, and descending 

 from the costa. The most conspicuous of 



