On a neio 5/7ec?es o/NoctuiJoe. 275 



M'Intosh. 1 8?io. ' Challenger ' Eeports, Zoology, vol. xii. " Annelida 



Polvchaeta." 

 . 1008. ' Monofrrapb of British Annelida. — Polychseta,' vol. ii. 



parts i. & ii. Ray Society. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XL 



Fig. 1. Bristle (anterior) from fifteenth foot of Megalia assimilis. En- 



larpred. 

 Fig. 2. Bristle (posterior) from the fifteentli foot. Enlarpred. 

 Fig. 3. Bristle oi Megalia perarmata, Be St. Jos., after M'Intosh. En- 



larjred. 



XXIX. — Description of a new Species o/Noctuidse. 

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



Catocalix^. 

 7494: a. Homaea addisonce, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with 

 blackish and oclireous ; palpi with white ring at extremity of 

 second joint; irons with white line below ; tegulffi ochreous, 

 with two blackish spots near base and band before tips : 

 pectus and legs ochreous brown and greyish, the tarsi 

 whitish. Fore wing reddish brown mixed with blackish and 

 some grey ; an indistinct sinuous ochreous subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antcmedial line indistinct, ochrcous, 

 becoming whitish at costa, sinuous and inwardly oblique; the 

 medial area with a paler red-brown band with white marks 

 at costa before, between, and beyond the double inwardly 

 oblique and slightly sinuous black medial line, the outer line 

 rather diffused ; rcniform with pale reddish centre defined 

 by blackish, on which are three white stride on its inner side, 

 a small lunulate spot on its outer side at middle, an elongate 

 spot beyond its upper extremity and two beyond its lower ; 

 postmedial line ochreous defined on inner side by black 

 forming somewhat lunulate marks in the interspaces, slightly 

 sinuous, cxcurvcd to vein 4, then incurved, a dark shade 

 beyond it with dentate outer edge and some white points on 

 costa ; a black line before termen defined on inner side bv 

 grey except towards costa and slightly dentate at veins 6 

 to 3 ; a white line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish brown 

 mixed with blackish except on inner area, which has a series 

 of black marks on vein I ; an indistinct double dark ante- 

 medial line ending at submedian fold ; two slight elongate 

 white spots beyond lower angle of cell, the lower minute ; 

 an iudistiuet double curved sinuous dark postmedial line 



