474 NOCTUID MOTHS 



8-2. Bertcla leucopis Hmpsn. 



Bcrtula Jeucopis Hmpsn., A.M.N.H. (9) xv, p. 410, 1925, Ichang. 



Mt. Poi, 200 feet— 1 c^. 



This specimen has a distinct dark claviform mark which 

 is absent in the type ; otlierwise there seems httle to 

 differentiate the two. Possibly racially distinct. 



88. Bertula rostrilinea sp. n. 



9 28 mm. 



Palpus, head and thorax above cinnamon tinged with 

 tawny ; abdomen, body beneath and legs predominantly a dark 

 drab. Fore icing cinnamon tinged ^^•ith tawny to postmedial 

 line, dark drab to termen ; subbasal and antemedial lines 

 indicated by metallic blue scales, the former cm-ved, close 

 to body, the latter outwardly dentate at SC and M, oblique 

 from AI to hind margin near base ; a black spot just beyond 

 it on costa ; i-eniform obliquely oval, pale, with a dark 

 streak at middle, the area beside and behind it darkened 

 from near antemedial line to postmedial ; postmedial line 

 double, crenulate, the inner line fine from a broad black spot 

 on costa, bent outward from costa, inwardly oblique to middle 

 of disc, where the inner line touches the reniform, angled 

 outward at M', upon which and on M^ it is sharply dentate, 

 slishtlv dentate in fold and on SM^ but nearlv erect from 

 ]\I- to middle of hind margin, distally defined by an almost 

 black shade, which is sharply defined on its outer edge by 

 some metallic blue scales (weak towards costa), nearly erect 

 from costa to near R^, behind which it is bent outward in 

 a snout-like prominence, thence strongly retracted and 

 incurved to hind margin ; subterminal tawny, outlined on 

 each side by dark scales, bent outward between SC^ and R', 

 strongly bent outward to M\ where at M^, in fold and 

 at ST^P it is distally dentate ; terminal dark lunules fairly 

 distinct. Hind icing dark drab with a bright tawny, dentate 

 subterminal line, obsolescent on anterior half of wing, 

 preceded on posterior half by metallic blue scales. Underside 

 dark drab, with slight discal kmule, weak dark postmedial 

 and pale subterminal line on both wings ; fore wing bright 

 tawny at and behind proximal three-fourths of costa. 



Mt. Penrissen, 4400 feet— 1 9. 



