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IX. Nc^o Species of Eastern, Australian and African 

 Heterocera in the National Collection. By Colonel 

 Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., etc. 



[Read March 2ncl, 1904.] 



Family AGARTSTID^. 



ROTHIA MARI/E, nov. 



$ . Black, palpi with white spots, thorax lielow and legs with 

 some ochreous hairs ; fore-wings with a discal, oblique, white stripe 

 from the costa a little beyond the middle to the hinder angle, 

 touching neither costa nor angle; hind-wings with a white inner, 

 patch occupying the basal half of the costa, narrowing gradually 

 hindwards and ending narrowly rounded, towards tlie outer margin 

 one-third from the anal angle. 



Expanse of wings 2iV inches. 



Kampala, Uganda, March 1900 {H. B. Ecdtray). 



Family NOCTUID.^. \ 



Caradrina albistigma, nov. 



(J , $ . Head, thorax and fore- wings fawn-colour, frons pale ochreous, 

 top of head and collar in the female pale ochreous, fore-wings with 

 the costal line brown, a brown band on the hinder margin, three 

 sinuous, erect, thin brown transverse lines, sub-basal, ante- and post- 

 medial, a brown longitudinal streak (in the female more or less 

 macular) cut in two by the large, almost square reniform white 

 stigma which reaches up to the costa ; hind-wings and abdomen pale 

 black, anal tuft of male ochreous. 



Expanse of wings 1 j-^ inches. 



2 ^, Sandakan {W. B. Pryer). 1 ?, Matang, 1800', 

 May 1902 {R. Shelf ord). 



Agrophila labuana, nov. 



$. Antenna?, palpi and legs ochreous, head, body and wings 

 sordid white, head, front of thorax and anal tuft of abdomen slightly 

 suffused with ochreous, head and thorax with some black dots, fore- 



trans. ent. soc. lond. 1904. — part i. ( April) 



