372 noctuidjE. 



Genus SCOTOSTENA, nov. 



Type, S. lur/ens. 



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

 to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons witt 

 rounded prominence with slight raised edges at extremity and minute truncate 

 process from middle, a curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; 

 antenna* of female ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, tin 

 prothorax without crests, the metatborax with decumbent crest ; tibiae smoothh 

 scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle ol 

 cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent lion 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the eel: 

 to near middle. 



A. Fore wing fuscous brown , higens. 



B. Fore wing ochreous brown pinodes. 



5567. Scotostena lugens, n. sp. 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown with a greyisl 

 tiuge ; palpi, pectus, and legs with whitish mixed, the tarsi ringe< 

 with white. Fore wing fuscous brown with a greyish tinge 

 subbasal line represented by a faint blackish striga from costa 

 antemedial line indistinct, black defined on inner side by greyish 





Fig. 115. — Scotostena lugens, $. f. 



waved, somewhat oblique ; orbicular a whitish or white poin 

 defined by black ; reniform with brown centre and more or les 

 complete whitish or white annulus defined by black, constricted a 

 middle ; postmedial line slight, blackish defined on outer side b; 

 grey, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line hardly traceable 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of blacl 

 points ; cilia greyish with a slight dark line near base. Hind win 

 reddish brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line through them 

 the underside greyish suffused with brown. 



Bab. Br. N. Guinea, Port Moresby, 4 $ type. Exp. 16-2 

 millim. 



*5568. Scotostena pinodes. (Plate CLX. fig. 1.) 

 Tarache pinocles, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N.'S.W. xxxiv. p. 350 (1909). 



cJ. Head and .thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi whit 

 at base; pectus and legs whitish irrorated with brown, the tar 



