218 noctuid moths 



Erastrianae. 



12 Enispa oligochra sp. n. 



cT 17 mm. 



Tongue present, thoiiah slender: antenna -u-ith long ciliation. 

 Termen of both wings rounded. 



Frons, palpus and legs pale brown shaded with darker 

 brown ; vertex of head, patagia and tegulae whitish-huff: the 

 rest of the wings, thorax and abdomen rather pale purplish- 

 brown ; fringes buff shaded with pale rufous. Fore wing 

 with three paler, more rufous lines, the ante and postmedial 

 (or n}edial') nearly straight, the siibterminal strongly excurved 

 from costal pale area to Pv' and from "R' to M^, these lines 

 indicated at costa by dark sjiots ; both ^ings with terminal 

 row of black points. Thiderf^idp pale grey, with costa of fore 

 wing and fringes buff : fore wing more fuscous on proximal 

 half : hind wing with darker discal spot and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Mt. Murud. 6500 feet. November— 1 o*- 



By Hampson's key in Cat. Lep. Phal., x. this species 

 should fall with flaririncfa Hmpsn.. Cat. Lep. Phal., x. 

 p. 5, pi. cl, fig. ], 1910, Singapore, but the tw^o species are 

 at once distinguishable by the broad pale shade at apex and 

 on termen of fore wing in fJnvirineta. which is entirely wanting 

 in oligochra. 



13. ErBLEMTMA cocHYLTOTDES fGuen.K 



Micra cochylioides Guen.. Spec. G^n. Lep., vi. p. 245, 1852, Bour- 

 bon Is. 



Pah Trap, November — 19- 



This species which is extremely widely distributed through 

 the Ethiopian and Indo-Australian Regions has not at present 

 been found to show any distinct racial variation. 



14. ToANA species. 



Mt. Poi, 4400 feet— IcT; Mt. Dulit, 3000 f eet— 1 9 , 

 probably the 9 to the Mt. Poi cf. 



Both these specimens are, unfortunately, too poor to be 

 made the type of a new species without risk of creating 

 confusion for future workers, though the species appears 

 to be new. 



The general tone of wings above is rufous ; the 9 shows 

 large yellow discal spots on both wings, which appear to be 



