380 Mr. G. T. Betliiinc-Bakcr on 



of spots, tlie tliird terminatincc on vein 4 ; all tliesc rows are 

 more or less parallel, and are followed hy a terminal row 

 which has only a trace o£ the metallic pupilliiif^. 



Expanse 34 mm. 



IJah. Kadugli, Nuba Ilillsj Kordofan, December (/?. S. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



This species will come near victoricv, Btl. 



Hesperidae. 

 Caprona adeli'ca hordofani, var. n. 



cj . Head, thorax, abdomen, and all the wino^s very jiale 

 ])inkish buff, with the usual marks as in adtlica, Karsch, but 

 the broad pale median area is more or less tilled in with 

 stripes and lines. 



This is no doubt the dry-country form of adelxca^ and I 

 think that any Cassxudalla from An<;ola is the more varie- 

 oated Western form of the same insect. 



Heterocer A. 

 Noctuidae. 



Sticloptera ohaktui, sp. n. 



(^ . Head and collar fawn-brown, the latter with pale 

 edging ; patagia fawn-brown ; abdomen pale grey. Pri- 

 maries fawn-brown, the basal and antemedian areas some- 

 what mottled ; a pale ash-grey median band, in which there 

 is a short dark dash in front of the reniform stigma, outside 

 which is a twin, sharply crenulated, curved postmedian line ; 

 two paler subterminal rows of spots almost forming lines. 

 Secondaries hyaline, with the terminal third dark. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Ilab. Obalau Island (Fiji). 



Type in my collection. 



Near melanistis, Hmpsn. 



Pseudojyhi.v pratti, B-B. 



I described this species in Nbvit. Zool. xiii. pp. 2G1 &2G2, 

 1906, and I considered that the female I described on p. 2(52 

 was the female of pratti ; but I tind this is not the case. 

 ]\rr. Joicey has received a specimen from the Wandammen 

 !Mountains, Dutch New Guinea, which is without doubt the 

 female oi pratti ; the markings are precisely tlie same, except 



