1920] Holland, Lepidoptera of the Congo 2S9 



Erastriinae 

 Amyna (luonee 



(590) 1. Amyna punctum (Fabricius) 



Noctua punctum Fabricius, 1794, Ent. Syst., Ill, part 2, p. 47. 



(For the voluminous synonymy see Hampson, Cat. Lep., Plial., X, 1910, p. 472.) 



Two specimens which I take to be a variety of this species were taken 

 at Stanleyville, April 9, 1915. 



The species is variable and the specimens appear to represent one of 

 its protean forms. The whole genus is in more or less of a "mess." 

 Hampson has straightened things out to some extent, but there remains 

 more to be done. According to Hampson A. punctum has had no less 

 than eleven specific names applied to it, and A. octo is blessed with twenty 

 specific names and has been located in no less than twelve genera. 



OzARBA Walker 



(591) 1. Ozarba species (?) 



A single, somewhat damaged specimen, which I am unable to refer 

 to any species which thus far has been described and figured, but which 

 I do not wish to name without more and better material, was caught at 

 Banana, June 21, 1909. 



Heterospila Guenee 



(592) 1. Heterospila (?) rubida, new species 



Plate XIII, Figure 12, o" 

 (^. Antenna; two-thirds length of fore wing, feebly pectinate except at tip, 

 which is simple. Palpi porrect, third joint minute. Eyes moderately large, black; 

 head and upper side of thorax bright orange-red ; upper side of abdomen pale fuscous ; 

 tibiae, which are heavily clothed with hair, orange-red; tarsi fuscous, annulated with 

 white. Both wings on the upper side prevalently purplish red, variegated with bright 

 red and pale yellowish spots. The costa of the fore wing is red with three dark trans- 

 verse spots near the base; the inner half of the wing is reddish, crossed by a dark sub- 

 basal and a dark median band, which are parallel to each other; the reniform is dark, 

 pupilled with light red, and the space before and after it is lighter, in the type yellow- 

 ish, in the paratype pale reddish; the outer half of the fore wing is clouded with purplish 

 brown, interrupted on the interspaces by an irregularly curved row of submarginal 

 spots, which are yellowish in the type, and pale reddish in the paratype. The hind wing 

 on the upper side is prevalently reddish purple, paler toward the base, and crossed 

 by obscure median and postmedian dark lines, and marked in the region of the anal 

 angle with scattered pale reddish spots. On the under side the wings are i)ale yellow- 

 ish shading into fuscous externally. There is a small dark dot in the cell of the fore 

 wing, followed bj' a larger dark spot at its end; a similar spot occurs at the end of the 

 cell of the hind wing. Both wings are crossed from their costie to near their inner 

 margins by similarly curved parallel postmedian and submarginal bands composed 

 of dark spots upon the interspaces. Expanse, 34 mm. 



