2GG NOCTUIDJS. 



outer side and postmedial line on inner side strongly defined by black 

 on inner area. — N. S. Wales. 



Hub. Britain (Dobree-Fo.v) ; Netherlands, Eorkum I. ; France, 

 Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Engadine, Leech Coll. ; Spain, Catalonia, 

 Zeller Coll., type junceti, Sierra Nevada ( Walsingham), Gibraltar ; 

 Italy, Capri (C. S. Broivne), Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Dalmatia, Frey & 

 Leech Colls. ; Algeria (Mrs. NichoU), 1 <$ , 1 2 ; Morocco, Tangier 

 (Leech), 1 <$ , I 5 ; Madeira (Wollaston), 1 2 : Canaries, Teneriffo 

 (Leech, W. White), 1 d , 1 5 , Guimar ( Walsingham), 1 <$ ; 

 S. Russia, Sarepta (Christoph) ; Cypres (Miss Bate), 1 S ; Asia 

 Minor ; Syria, Lebanon (Pratt), 1 J , Mardin ; Up. Egypt, Aboukir 

 (Graves), 1 6 , Etbai (McAUster), 1 J ; Sokotra, Abd-el-Knri 

 (Grant), 1 J , Hadibu Plain (Grant), 1 2 ; Br. E. Africa, Machakos 

 (Craw shay), 1 c? , 1 $ , Eb Urru (Betton), 1 5; Beciiuanaland, 

 N'Gami (Lugard), 1 3 , 1 $ ; Transvaal, Piefc Retief (Crawshay), 



1 2 , Pretoria (Janse), 2 2 ; Orange II. Colony, Bloemfontein 

 (Eckersley), 1 2 ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 2 $ , Tugela It. 

 (Reynolds), 1 ,5,1 $ , Durban (Leigh), 1 J,l ? ; Basetoland, 

 Maseru (Crawshay), 1 2 ; Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith), 1 d , 1 $ , 

 Deelfontein (CW. Sloggett), 1 2 ! Aden (Yerbury, Grant), 1 ^ , 



2 2 '> Persian Gulp, Fao (dimming), 2 d ; Japan, Yokohama 

 (Pryer), 1 tf ; Centr. China, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 1 2 ; Punjab, 

 Simla (Reed, Harford), 2 2, Cambellpur (Yerbury), 3 J, 1 2i 

 Dharmsiila (Hocking), 2^,3$, Allahabad, 1 2 j Manpuri, 1 2 5 

 Sikhim (Dudgeon), 1 2 ; Madras, Gooty (Campbell), 1 2 > Nilgiris 

 (Hampson), 1 ^ , 2 2 ; Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole), 1 d\ Trincomali 

 (Yerbury), 1 2 ; Burma, Rangoon (Scott), 1 2; Yunnan (Hobson), 



1 2 ! Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 12; W. Austkalia, 

 Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 $ ; N. S. Wales, Broken Hill (Lower), 



2 c?,l 2 ; Hawaii, Honolulu (Blackburn), 1 c? type venosa, Kona 

 (Perkins), 1 2 » Lahana (Perkins), 1 J . ^rp. 26-34 rnillim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 113; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 273, pi. 220 f. 1. 



Pinkish brown, dots blackish ; spiracular line pale ochreous, 

 dark-edged above. Food-plants : Plantago and low growing 

 herbs. 8-9, In Egypt destructive to Lucerne and Cotton. 



Genus NEOLAPHYGMA, nov. 



Type, K. leucoplaga. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching to 

 middle of irons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of female ciliated ; thorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the me ta thorax with 

 paired crests formed of long hair and spatulate scales; build slender ; tibiae 

 fringed with scales, the tarsi with tufts of scales on 1st joint; abdomen long 

 and slender, without crests. Fore wing very narrow, the margins subparallel, 

 the apex produced to a slight point, the termen slightly excised below it then 

 strongly excurved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8 and 10 stalked, 9 absent, 7 and 10 

 almost from a point ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 

 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 stalked ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell to middle. 



