On neio Species of Eastern Lepidoptera. 5 



denticles. They are thus distinctly new and may receive the 

 provisional name of Galeocerdo JaeJi-eli, in compliment to the 

 author of" the most important contribution hitherto made to 

 our knowledo;e of the extinct CarchariidcB *. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1. 



Fig. 1. Diplomystus longicostatus, Cope. Fish in lateral aspect, probably 



wanting the anterior dorsal margin. — Cretaceous ; Bahia, 



Brazil. [Brit. Mus. no. P. 7109.J 

 Figs. 2-4. Diplomyshis Bircli, sp. n. Three fishes in lateral aspect. — 



Upper Cretaceous; Hakel, Mount Lebanon, Syria. [Brit. Mus. 



nos. P. 83, P. 96, P. 96 a.] 

 Fig. 5. Galeocerdo Jaekeli, sp. n. Tooth, inner aspect. — Chalk ; Kent. 



[Brit. Mus. no. 41706 fl.] 

 Figs. 6, 7. Ditto. Two teeth, outer aspect.— Chalk, Kent. [Mantua 



Collection.] 



[All the figures are of the natural size.] 



III. — New Species of Eastern Lepidoptera. 

 By Col. C. SwiNHOE,' M.A., F.L.S., V.P.B.S. 



[Continued from vol. xiv. p. 443.] 



Noctuidae. 



J'bifinm. 

 Genus ACRONYCTA, Ochs. 

 Acronycta gastridia, sp. n. 



^ . Thorax grey : fore wings greyisli white, irrorated with 

 brown atoms ; orbicular round and black-ringed ; reniform 

 brown, Avith a thin black bar on each side ; basal and ante- 

 medial double crenulated black transverse lines ; a discal 

 black line, with sharp outward dentations on the veins ; an 

 indistinct submarginal whitish dentated band and black points 

 on the margin : hind wings grey, with a darker lunular mark 

 at the end of the celL Underside : fore wings greyish brown ; 

 hind v/ings greyish white, with a grey lunular mark at the 

 end of each cell. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Murree. One example, 



(Somewhat akin to the European A. pst, Linn. 



* 0. Jaekel, 'Die eocanen Selachier vom Monte Bolca' (1894), 

 pp. 1.56-175. 



