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THE ANNALS 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL mSTOEY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES,] 

 No. 74. FEBRUARY 10 U. 



XVIII. — Descriptions of neiv Genera and Species of Noctuidse. 

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



[Concluded from p. 17o.] 



Genus Lophocyttarra, nov. 



Tyjw, L. phccnico.v(mfha. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturned, slender, the 

 second joint reaching to about middle of frons, the third sliort; 

 f rons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; fore and mid tiljite fringed with long liair ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate : veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upjjcr angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form a minute areole ; II from cell; 

 a small tuft of scales in middle of cell and two on disco- 

 rx'llulars. Ilind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 D neaily fully developed from just below middle of disco- 

 rollulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only, 



5406 fl. Lophocyttarra phcenicoxantha, sp. n. 



($ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark purple-red tinged 

 with blackish ; pectus, legs, ventral surface of abdomen 

 and anal tuft yellow, the fore legs black in front except 

 the tarsi. Fore wing yellow, the base and costal area 



Ann. .t- Mac/. S. Hist. Sc-r. «. Vof, xiii. U 



