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spot below this iu cellule 4 not divided; three small spots 

 before the apex ; traces of dots in the distal area in 3 and 4. 

 Hind iving with a black mark on iipper discocellular, a 

 black anal spot, two spots on either side of vein 2, two 

 lar^e ones on either side of vein 5, no apical spot. 



Underside. — Fore wing with markings as above, reduced 

 in basal and median areas ; discal band with costal patch 

 separated from patch at lower angle of cell. Hind vnng 

 with a small round spot at middle of costa, other markings 

 as above. 



Antennae blackish brown; palpi and sides of frons 

 blackish brown; central part of frons and vertex pale 

 ochraceous ; teguUe and patagia dark ochraceous ; patagia 

 with a blackish basal patch, represented in dinawa by a free 

 roinided spot and a dot at extreme base ; thorax with a 

 blackish mesial line ; abdomen crimson above, pale ochra- 

 ceous below, a black dorsal stripe and lateral series ofc" spots; 

 legs and pectus blackish brown, fore coxse and femora 

 crimson on outside ; a crimson tuft at base of thorax. 



Length of fore wing 27 mm. 



Hub. Wandammen Mtns., 3000-1000 feet, Nov. 1 S - 



Noctuidse. 



Subfamily A c R o N Y c T I N ^. 



CoRDYLEPALPA, nom. nov. 



ATe substitute this name for Clavipalpa, J. & T,, which is 

 preoccupied {Clavipalpa, Joicey & Talbot, Trans. Eut. Soc. 

 Lond. 1915 (June), p. 377). 



Subfamily Noctuin^. 



Athyrma spilota, sp. n. 

 (PI. I. fig. 3.) 



? . Upperside. — Fore wing with dark chestnut-brown 

 ground-colour ; a waved black basal line, thickened on 

 costa; an antemed'an line, black, irregular, and curved 

 outwardly, thickened on the costa and posteriorly broadened 

 to a triangular patch ; a lilac-grey quadrate costal patch, 

 bearing a black dot near its lower outer angle, forming the 

 upper part of an antemedian band ; lower part of ante- 

 median band much broader, dark green ; a yellowish stripe 

 on vein 2 ; three curved yellowish marks below the sub- 

 median ; a dark greenish costal patch of spots beyond the 

 cell, outwardly defined by a thin grev post-discal line ; a 



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