NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID/E FROM THE PHILIPPINES. 271 



It will be seen that we have under this name three forms, all 

 widely apart, and as there is no indication in the shape of a label 

 which of them Webb took as his type, and his description is not 

 sufhciently in detail to indicate his meaning, it is plain flavo- 

 striana, Webb, is not established, and that therefore it must fall. 



(To be contiiuied.) 



NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FROM THE 

 PHILIPPINES. 



By a. E. Wilejian and Piichard South. 



(Continued from p. 124.) 

 2'racJiea discisignata, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax pale brown mixed with reddish, crown of 

 head reddish brown ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wings pale brown, 

 powdered with darker, dotted with black, and barred with brown on 

 costa ; subbasal line indicated by a black linear mark on the costa ; 

 antemedial line blackish, interrupted, preceded on costa by a brown, 

 elongate mark, indented and more clearly defined towards dorsum ; 

 reniform and orbicular stigmata outlined in black, the former enclos- 

 ing a dark brown lunule, and filled in with whitish ; a dark brown 

 spot under the median nervure, its outer and lower edge limited by a 

 black line which runs to base of wing ; post-medial line dark brown, 

 originating in fifth black dot on the costa, sinuous, excurved about 

 middle ; subterminal line sinuous, brown, outwardly edged with 

 paler ; fringes brown, darker at ends of veins, a pale line at base. 

 Hind wings pale brown, darker on terminal area. Underside pale 

 brown, all the wings with darker discal lunule and two almost 

 parallel lines bej^ond. 



Expanse, 36 mm. 



Four male specimens from Haight's Place, Pauai, subprov. 

 Benguet, Luzon (7000 ft.), .January 12th, 1912. One of the 

 specimens is rather greyish in the tone of ground-colour. 



Comes nearest to T. dinavana, Hampson. 



Stictoptera (?) apicalis, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax and abdomen dark chocolate brown ; fore wings 

 dark chocolate brown ; antemedial line black, indistinct, edged on 

 each side with pale brown, slightly curved, terminating in a pale 

 ochreous mark on dorsum ; orbicular stigma black, elongate, faintly 

 edged with pale brown ; reniform stigma pale brown, partly outlined 

 in black ; postmedial line pale brown, indistinctly edged with black, 

 crenulate and sinuous, terminating in a pale ochreous mark on 

 dorsum ; subterminal line indicated by a sinuous series of pale brown 

 dots, becoming linear towards dorsum ; a pale ochreous apical mark, 

 outwardly diffuse and inwardly edged with black ; terminal dots pale 

 ochreous ; fringes dark chocolate brown, dotted with pale ochreous 



