﻿THE 
  ANNALS 
  

  

  MAGAZIiNE 
  OF 
  NATURAL 
  HISTORY. 
  

  

  [EIGHTH 
  SERIES.] 
  

  

  No. 
  74. 
  FEBRUARY 
  1914. 
  

  

  XVIII. 
  — 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  neiv 
  Genera 
  and 
  Species 
  of 
  Noctuidse. 
  

   By 
  Sir 
  George 
  F. 
  Hampson, 
  Bart., 
  F.Z.S. 
  

  

  [Concluded 
  from 
  p. 
  175.] 
  

  

  Genus 
  Lophocyttarra, 
  nov. 
  

  

  Type, 
  L. 
  pJioenicoxantha. 
  

  

  Proboscis 
  aborted, 
  minute 
  ; 
  palpi 
  upturned, 
  slender, 
  tlie 
  

   second 
  joint 
  reaching 
  to 
  about 
  middle 
  of 
  frons, 
  the 
  third 
  short; 
  

   frons 
  smooth 
  ; 
  eyes 
  large, 
  round 
  ; 
  antennse 
  of 
  male 
  ciliated 
  ; 
  

   thorax 
  clothed 
  almost 
  entirely 
  with 
  scales 
  and 
  without 
  

   crests 
  ; 
  fore 
  and 
  mid 
  tibi?e 
  fringed 
  with 
  long 
  hair 
  ; 
  abdom.eu 
  

   without 
  crests. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  with 
  the 
  apex 
  rounded, 
  the 
  

   terinen 
  evenly 
  curved 
  and 
  not 
  crenulate 
  ; 
  veins 
  3 
  and 
  5 
  

   from 
  near 
  angle 
  of 
  cell 
  ; 
  6 
  from 
  upper 
  angle 
  ; 
  9 
  from 
  10 
  

   anastomosing 
  with 
  8 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  minute 
  areole 
  ; 
  11 
  from 
  cell; 
  

   a 
  small 
  tuft 
  of 
  scales 
  in 
  middle 
  of 
  cell 
  and 
  two 
  on 
  disco- 
  

   cellulars. 
  Hind 
  wing 
  with 
  veins 
  3, 
  4 
  from 
  angle 
  of 
  cell 
  ; 
  

   5 
  nearly 
  fnlly 
  developed 
  from 
  just 
  below 
  middle 
  of 
  disco- 
  

   cellulars 
  ; 
  6, 
  7 
  from 
  upper 
  angle 
  ; 
  8 
  anastomosing 
  with 
  the 
  

   cell 
  near 
  base 
  only. 
  

  

  5406 
  «. 
  Lophocyttarra 
  phmnicoxantha, 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  (J. 
  Head, 
  thorax, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  dark 
  pur|)le-red 
  tinged 
  

   with 
  blackish 
  ; 
  pectus, 
  legs, 
  ventral 
  surface 
  of 
  abdomen 
  

   and 
  anal 
  tuft 
  yellow, 
  the 
  fore 
  legs 
  black 
  in 
  front 
  except 
  

   the 
  tarsi. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  yellow, 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  costal 
  area 
  

  

  Ann. 
  & 
  Mag, 
  N. 
  Hist. 
  Ser. 
  8. 
  Vol. 
  xiii. 
  14 
  

  

  