536 Bibliographical Notice. 



with buffy along a narrow dorsal area. No lighter markings 

 over eyes. Ears large, fulvous brown. Nape-line dark 

 grizzled grey, not very sharply defined ; sides of neck bright 

 ochraceous buff. Throat-markings well-defined, white and 

 dark fulvous, not blackish. Belly white along the centre, a 

 well-marked rich buffy line separating the white on each side 

 from the grey of the flanks, and breaking it across the loins 

 before it passes down the front of the hind legs. Fore limbs 

 rich fulvous, a narrow line on their inner side proximally 

 white. Hind limbs grey proximally, passing into dull 

 fulvous on the lower leg and feet. Tail above like back at 

 base, becoming more fulvous distally, white below and at 

 extreme end. 



Skull rather larger than in T. kanchil affinis, much smaller 

 than in T. napu, but the tooth-row more approaches in length 

 that of the latter. Bullse large, rounded, more inflated than 

 in either of the other forms. 



Dimensions of the type (measured on the skin) : — 

 Head and body -180 mm.; tail 50; hind foot (c. u.) 

 (circa) 120. 



Skull : condylo-basal length 95 ; greatest breadth 45"5 ; 

 nasals 34'5 x 13*3 ; interorbital breadth 29; upper cheek- 

 tooth series 36'6 ; premolars only 17*2. 

 Bab. Nhatrang, Annam. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 6. 11. 6. 39. Collected 

 22nd March, 1906, by Dr. J. Vassal. Four specimens. 



This striking species is at once distinguishable from all 

 others by the peculiar difference in colour between the ante- 

 rior and posterior halves of the body, the former fulvous, the 

 latter grey, rather abruptly contrasted with each other. 



Although far smaller than is usual in the napu group, it is 

 possibly a local representative of it, for it has the coarse hair 

 so characteristic of napu, its teeth are nearly as large, and the 

 kanchil group is already represented in Annam by T. k. affinis, 

 of which Dr. Vassal has also sent specimens. 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTICE. 

 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phakence in the British Museum. 

 Vol. IX. Catalogue of the Noctuidse in the Collection of the British 

 Museum. By Sir Geokge F. Hampson, Bart. London : Printed 

 by Order of the Trustees, 1910. Pp. xv, 552; figs. 247; 

 pis. cxxxvii.-cxlvii. 



Less than a year separates the publication of this volume of Sir 

 George F. Hampson's epoch-making work from that of the last, the 

 Preface to Vol. VIII. being dated March 18th, 1909, and that of 

 Vol. IX. January 21st, 1910. Vol. IX. "is the third and final 

 part of the very large Noctuid subfamily Acronyctinos ; it contains 



