168 NOCTtUID H. 
tegule with ochreous and rufous dorsal patch edged with black, the 
patagia with soine rufous on upper edge; pectus and abdomen grey 
mixed with fuscous, the tibice and tarsi banded with black; the 
ventral surface of abdomen white except at extremity. Fore wing 
very thickly striated with black and brown, the basal half suffused 
with purplish brown except at costa; subbasal line indistinct, 
sinuous, from costa to vein 1; an indistinct double curved and 
waved antemedial line; the claviform represented by a tuft of 
rufous scales at extremity; orbicular defined by black on outer side 
and with tuft of rufous scales in centre; medial line blackish, 
almost evenly curved; reniform defined by black, rather triangular, 
with oblique black striga with white spot before it in centre ; 
postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, exeurved to vein 4, 
then oblique; subterminal line whitish, with shght black streak 
before and beyond it below costa and small orange spots before it 
at discal and submedian folds, slightly excurved below vein 7 and 
at middle; a terminal series of black lunules. Hind wing hyaline, 
the veins, costal and terminal areas, and the inner margin fuseous 
brown; cilia with fine white line at base and white tips; the 
underside with slight discoidal lunule and medial striga from costa. 
@. Fore wing paler without the dark suffusion on basal half, 
the tuft of scales on claviform and orbicular and the spots before 
subterminal line bright orange. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinna, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 3, Dinawa (Pratt), 
1 g,1 9, Owgarra (Meck),1 9. Hap. 38-42 millim. 
6398. Stictoptera stygia, n. sp. (Plate CLXXVIII. fig. 10.) 
¢. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous black with a pale grey 
band behind the tegule; palpi whitish in front, the 3rd joint 
whitish with a dark ring near extremity ; antenne with the tuft of 
scales on basal joint whitish at tip; pectus and legs whitish tinged 
with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish; ventral 
surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing fuscous black, the costal 
edge brownish white, the terminal half of costal area with some 
whitish irroration, a grey patch at apex, the terminal area 
brownish grey below vein 4; subbasal line represented by a curved 
black striga from costa; antemedial line hardly traceable, waved ; 
claviform represented by an oblique black striga at extremity on 
a brownish grey patch below end of cell; orbicular represeuted by 
a tuft of raised white scales, the reniform slightly defined by black and 
with tuft of raised white scales on its inner edge; medial line 
indistinct, black, somewhat oblique to submedian fold, then sinuous ; 
postmedial line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, incurved 
below vein 4 and slightly excurved at vein 1; subterminal line 
white with slight black streaks before and beyond it below costa; 
then defined on inner side by brown spots, minutely waved and 
somewhat excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black 
spots ; cilia fuscous intersected with brownish. Hind wing fuscous 
