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NOCTUID.E. 



them ; a erenulate blackish terminal line with ochreous points 

 beyond it in the interspaces ; cilia black-brown. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; two slight blackish marks on vein 1 towards its extremity 



Fig. 16. — Hypmtra cthiopka, J. 



with an oblique whitish bar beyond them ; cilia with a punctiform 

 whitish line at base ; the underside with small whitish discoidal 

 spot and dark postmedial line from costa to subraedian fold. 



Hfih. Gold Coast, Bibianaha {SpnrrelJ). 1 $ ; S. Xireria, 

 Ilesha (Ilumfrei/), 1 6 type; Ug.\xda, Entebbe {Minchiu), 

 I $ . Exj). 'j.2^6 millim. ' 



B. {HfjpcBtra.) Mid tibiae of male not dilated. 



a. Fore wing with quadrate black-brown patch beyond 



the cell forn)ing a hook on inner side below novagithicava. 



h. Fore wiflg with lunnlate dark patch beyond the cell, 

 sometimes obsolete, and without subbasal and ante- 

 medial black bars from cost a discolor. 



0, Fore wing with subbasal and antemedial black bars 



from costa, and without dark patch bejond the cell., nocluoides. 



7831. Hypsetra novaguineana. (Plate CCXXIII. lis?. 0.) 



Hyi-cetra nomgHineana, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 202 (1900). 



Head and thorax bright red-brown ; palpi |Tale at tips ; pectu."?, 

 legs, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing bright red-brown 

 with some grey in'oration on ba.sal and medial parts of costa and 

 on postmedial area ; a quadrate antemedial velvety black patch in 

 submedian intei*sj)ace defined at sides by yellow lines ; a black 

 point in middle of cell ; a velvets' black discoidal patch defined at 

 sides by yellow lines, extending to well below the cell where it 

 forms a hook on inner side ; traces of a dark postmedial line, 

 sinuous to vein 4, then incurved, the grey irroration forming slight 

 streaks beyond it on the veins ; an indistinct sinuous dark sub- 



