Moths in the Joicey Collection. 187 
lunular; median line grey, sinuous, excurved beyond cell- 
mark, incurved at fold ; postmedian line black, produced to 
an acute angle outwards at R!, then somewhat crenulate, bent 
inwards at submedian fold; a narrow paler band beyond the 
postmedian, faiutly bisected from R! to hind margin; a 
large black subapical dot as in erectata ; apical dark mark 
minute and not strong; terminal line fine, crenulate, grey, 
not very conspicuous except in a black dot at fold. 
Hind wing similar to that of erectata, but more weakly 
marked. 
Underside pale grey tinged with yellow-brown, very feebly 
marked ; cell-dots obsolete ; postmedian indicated, at costa 
slightly pale-edged distally ; a crenulate pale subterminal 
line indicated on hind wing. 
Cameroons (Watkins). 
33. Tolnaodes dasynota calocraspeda, subsp. n. 
3 2 .—Fore wing in general less reddish than in dasynota 
dasynota from Colombia, Venezuela, and French Guiana, with 
darker clouding in distal area; fringe above, as well as 
beneath, white between the folds of cellules 4 and 5 and again 
before (and sometimes also behind) M’. 
Hing wing dark, in general with the subtornal markings 
less prominent. 
Peru and Ecuador; the type and another ¢ from Santo 
Domingo, S.E. Peru, 6000 feet, November 1904 (G. Ocken- 
den); @ 2 from Kio Pastaza, E. Ecuador, 3500-4900 feet 
(G. Palmer), and Rio Tabaconas, N. Peru, 6000 feet (A. H. 
el. Prat). 
Subfamily Hresrvm (Noctuine, Hmpsn.). 
34. Melapera roastis, Hmpsn. 
This interesting species, a genotype, was described (Ann. 
& Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i. p. 488) from a single ? from Foret 
d’Ambre, Madagascar. A ¢@ in the Joicey collection (Fort 
Carnot, Tananarivo dist.) is smaller, 52 mm., the fore wing 
yellow, suffused with pink, becoming pink basally and 
posteriorly and with shadowy pale pink markings, namely, a 
roundish spot in cell, another at base of R?-M?, a smaller 
one anterior to this, and a subterminal row of smaller inter- 
neural ones about 4 mm. from termen, that in cellule 6 
slightly displaced distad ; the hind wing with strong red hair 
in abdominal region. 
‘The generic characters do not need amplification except 
