Moths ill the Joicey Collect'vm. Ia7 



liimilar ; iiicdiaii lino ^\'^\\ siimons, exciirvi'd beyoiul ccll- 

 niaik, iiu'iirvfd at fold ; postniediau line l)la<-k, produced to 

 an a(;utc aiij^le outwards at R', tlieu sonunvhat creiiulatc, bent 

 'inwards at subincdiaii fold; a narrow paler band beyond the 

 })ostuie(lian, faintly bisected frona R' to hind marj^in; a 

 lar«i;e black sul)api{.'al dot as in ereclata ; apical dark mark 

 minute and not strong ; terminal line fine, crcnnlate, grey, 

 not very conspicuous except in a iiiack dot at fold. 



Hind wini/ similar to that of erectata, but more weakly 

 marked. 



Undfrside pale grey tinged with yellow-brown, very feebly 

 marked ; cell-dots obsolete ; postmedian indicated, at costa 

 sliglitly pale-edged distally ; a crenulatc pale subterminal 

 line indicated on bind wing. 



Canieroons ( Watkins). 



33. Tolnaodes dasynota. calocraspeda, subsp. u. 



(^ $ . — Fore iviny in general less reddish than in dasynota 

 dasynota from Colombia, Venezuela, and French Guiana, with 

 darker clouding in distal area ; fringe above, as well as 

 bcneatli, white between the folds of cellules -i and 5 and again 

 before (and sometimes also behind) M^. 



Hiny wing dark, in general with the subtornal markings 

 less prominent. 



Peru and Ecuador ; the type and another (^ from Santo 

 Domingo, S.E. Peru, GOOO feet, November 190 1 (G. Ocken- 

 den) ; ? ? from Rio Pastaza, E. Ecuador, 3300-4900 feet 

 (G. Palmer), and Rio Tabaconas, N. Peru, 6000 feet (A. E. 

 is F. Pratt). 



Subfamily Emubinje (Noctuince, Hmpsn.). 



34. Melapera roastis, Hmpsn. 



This interesting species, a genotype, was descril)ed (Ann. 

 & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) i. p. 488) from a single ? from Foret 

 d'Ambre, Madagascar. A <$ in the Joicey collection (Fort 

 Carnot, Tananarive dist.) is smaller, 52 mm., the fore wing 

 yellow, suffused with pink, becoming pink basally and 

 posteriorly and with shadowy pale pink markings, namely, a 

 roundish 'spot in cell, another at base of R--M\ a smaller 

 one anterior to this, and a subt-rminal row of smaller inter- 

 neural ones about 4 mm. from tcrmen, that in cellule 6 

 slightly displaced distad ; the hind wing with strong red hair 

 in abdominal region. 



The generic characters do not need amplification except 



