14G Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



punctured ; scutellurn sliglitly bigibbous, with small well- 

 separated punctures on a shining surface ; base of meta- 

 thorax of the same type as that of P. noachinus. Legs with 

 much dark hair, covering outer side of middle and hind 

 tibiae and tarsi ; brush at apex of hind basitarsi dark ; 

 tegul?e black. Wings dusky, very strongly so apically; 

 stigma and nervures piceous; second s.m. very broad, re- 

 ceiving first r. n. well before its end. Abdomen -shining, 

 the first two segments finely punctured, the first more closely 

 than the second; hair at apex black; of venter, to end of 

 fourth segment, glistening silvery ; second ventral seg uent 

 with a very large tubercle, the posterior slope of which is 

 beset with silverv hairs. 



Hab. Purnong {S. W. Fulton; Nat. Mus. Victoria, 138). 



Andrena bateice, Cockerell. 



Anirena hatosice, Cockerell, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxxvl. p. 248. 

 Cyprus. 



Following, I believe, an erroneous label, I wrote bateftm, 

 and tlie collector's name Miss Bates, although I ought to 

 liave known better, being well aware of the brilliant work 

 of Miss Dorothea Bate in Cyprus. 



Coelioxys ducalis, Smith. 

 Professor C. F. Baker sends me this fine species, collected 

 by himself at Los Banos, Philippine Islands. At the same 

 locality he has also taken both sexes of C. phiUppensis, 

 Bingham. 



Xylocopa morio callichlora, Cockerell, variety a. 

 Apical half of anterior wings suffused with coppery red. 

 Three females; Guayaquil, Ecuador, May to June, 1913 

 (C. T. Brues). X. callichlora probably deserves to rank as a 

 distinct species. 



XIV. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Noctuidse. 

 By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S. 



[Continued from vol. xii. p. 601.] 



CuCULLIAN^. 



2122 A. Cucullia nubipicta, sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 teguUe with two dark linos at middle and one near tips; 

 palpi with blackish strciiks at sides except towards tip ; 

 pectus whitisii tinged with rcd-t)ro\vn ; abdomen grey tinged 



