1 94 noctuid.h. 



brown line near base and black line near tips ; metathoracic crest 

 blackish ; tarsi l)lackish with pale riugs ; abdomen grey-brown 

 with the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing violaceous grey 

 strongly suffused and irrorated with dark reddish brown, the base 

 of cell and area just below it, the terminal part of inner area and 

 the area from end of cell obliquely to apex rather greyer, the veins 

 with slight dark streaks ; a strong black streak in basal half of 

 submedian fold ; orbicular narrow, elongate, rather oblique with 

 slight white annulus strongly defined by black ; reniform white 

 suffused with rufous above, defined by black on inner side and below, 

 expanding and rounded below, a black streak from it to termen 

 above vein 4 ; subterminal black streaks above veins 6 and 5, the 

 latter longer, and short terminal black streaks in the interspaces 

 above veins 3 and 2. Hind wing deep fuscous brown ; the under- 

 side grey irrorated and suffused with reddish brown, an indistinct 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Washington Terr., 1 $ , California, 2 $ type, Lake 

 Co. (Walsingham), 4 $ . Exp. 28-38 millim. 



*3800. Delta stolifera. 



Delta stolif era, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 264, f. 101 (1891). 



$ . Head and thorax grey-brown with a slight rufous tinge ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown, the costa tinged 

 with fuscous, the area just beyond the cell with rufous ; the cell 

 almost entirely occupied by a wedge-shaped black patch ; a black 

 fascia in submedian interspace from base to near termen expanding 

 at middle and tapering at extremities ; orbicular and reniform small 

 with blackish centres and ochreous annuli, the former elongate and 

 very narrow, the latter lunulate ; a wedge-shaped blackish patch 

 between veins 4 and 2 from lower angle of cell to the subterminal 

 line defined above by a pale curved streak ; subterminal line dentate 

 to termen throughout, with slight blackish lunules before it on inner 

 side between veins 6 and 4 and wedge-shaped black marks beyond 

 it in the interspaces ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, semihyaline whitish at base ; cilia ochreous. 



Hab. Madagascar, Nossi-Be. Exp, 40 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



3801. Delta campyla, n. sp. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 25.) 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous ; tegulse finely 

 barred with red-brown and whitish, the tips deep rufous ; patagia 

 with black streak near upper edge which is deep rufous, pectus 

 whitish at sides ; mid and hind tibia? with nifous streaks, the spurs 

 banded with black ; abdomen reddish ochreous suffused with brown, 

 the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, 

 the veins with dark streaks defined on each side by whitish ; a 

 black streak in submedian fold from base to postmedial line defined 

 by red-brown below ; another black streak ahove inner margin 

 from near hase to beyond middle ; a black streak in lower part of 



