new Species o/ Noctuidge. 379 



yellowish with small deep rufous patch below base of costa 

 and large patch from subcostal nervure to iuner margin, 

 bounded by a red-brown band expanding into a triangular 

 ])atcli on costa ; the rest of wing greenish grey with a slight 

 rufous tinge ; an indistinct waved rufous medial line excurved 

 from costa to vein 2 ; postmedial line faint with dark points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, then slightly curved ; 

 a small triangular red-brown patch on costa before apex; 

 some brown suffusion before termen between veins 4, 3; a 

 terminal series of points ; termen angled at vein 3, then 

 oblique, waved. Hind Aving reddish brown, the basal and 

 inner areas yellowish white; an obliquely curved whitish 

 medial line ; some slight dark marks on extremity of vein 2 

 and at tornus ; a fine waved terminal line ; cilia rufous ; the 

 underside rufous slightly irrorated with brown, the inner 

 area whitish, a small discoidal lunule and faint minutely waved 

 medial and postmedial lines. 



Hab. Old Calabar {Crompton), 1 ^ type. Ejp. 38 mm. 



Eutelia hoJocausta, sp. n. 



$ , Head, thorax, and base of abdomen fiery rufous j 

 tegulffi with blackish patches at base ; palpi long; abdomen 

 rufous tinged with grey, with small lateral chocolate-red 

 spots on third and fourth segments. Fore Aving fiery rufous 

 slightly tinged with grey and irrorated with fuscous ; traces 

 of an antemedial red line, oblique below the cell ; a fiery-red 

 spot in middle of cell ; a faint pale discoidal lunule ; traces 

 of a double postmedial line oblique from costa to vein G and 

 below vein 4 ; a chocolate-red patch on costa before apex 

 outwardly defined by an oblique white line with some fuscous 

 beyond it ; traces of a subterminal line excurved at middle, 

 then strongly incurved, with minute dentate chocolate marks 

 before it above and below vein 5, and slight rufous marks 

 above and below vein 2; termen angled at vein 4, then 

 oblique. Hind wing fiery rufous, with small chocolate-red 

 spots on inner margin towards tornus ; the underside with 

 chocolate discoidal spot and minutely waved medial, post- 

 medial, and subterminal lines, obsolescent on costal half. 

 Hab. Nigeria, Sapele [Sampson), 1 $ type. Kxp. 32 mm. 



Eutelia metasarca, sp. n. 



Antennse of male serrate and fasciculate, the apical part 

 ciliated. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown tinged with 



