212 NOCTUID MOTHS 



species received, Mt. Penrissen takes the highest place of all, 

 although the elevation of the majority of these is only 

 4400 feet and two species come from yet lower elevations. 

 From Bakong we only received 4 common Noctuids ; from 

 Mt. Dulit only 7 specimens listed here, though one of these 

 is the holotype of a new subspecies. 



It will be noticed that the larger part of the previously 

 known species were originally described from Sarawak or at 

 least from the Malayan subregion ; but a few are Indian 

 insects which seem only to have been known from that sub- 

 region, and one fHulodes hilaris) had been recorded only 

 from the Papuan subregion. 



Except in the Ophidcrinae , references to number of speci- 

 mens in Coll. Brit. Mus. are taken almost entirely from 

 Hampson's "Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalenae" (Vols. 

 IV to XIII^ ; it is not improbable that in some instances 

 additional specimens have been received since the publication 

 of that work. 



Agrotinae. 



1. Episilia ochracea Wlkr. form frontalis Moore. 



Oxira ochracea Wlkr.. Spec. Lep. Ins., xxxii, p. 657, 1865, Ceylon. 

 Graphiphora frontalis Moore, Lep. Ceyl., iii, p. 35, 1884, Ceylon. 



Mt. Murud, 6000-6500 feet, October— 2?. 



Certainly nearer to the frontalis than to the typical form 

 but somewhat more variegated and a little paler than the type 

 of frontalis ; quite Hkely to be a distinct race as ochracea is 

 only known from Ceylon ; but from 2 9 it is impossible to 

 decide with certainty the exact standing of the form. The 

 other synonyms and localities quoted by Sir G. Hampson in 

 his Cat. Lep. Phal., iv, p. 488, under ochracea appear to 

 be erroneous. 



ACRONYCTINAE. 



2. Magusa oenistis Hmpsn. murudensis subsp. n. 



(f 45 mm. 



Agrees very closely in size and colour with the typical form 

 of oenistis Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal., vii, p. 56, pi. cix, fig. 8, 

 1908, Brit. New Guinea, but the termen of fore wing is 



