On new Species of Noctuidae, 533 



JjVWl.— Descriptions of new Species o/Noctuidse in the British 

 Museum. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Continued from p. 386.] 



Stictopterin^t:. 

 Odontodes metamelmna, sp. n. 



? . Head and tliorax reddish brown mixed with grey and 

 fuscous ; pectus grey ; tarsi black with p:ile rings ; abdomen 

 fuscous sligiitly mixed with brown and grey, the ventral 

 surface grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing suffused with 

 greeni.>-h grey ; subbasal line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 rufous, curved from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, the outer line indistinct^ irregularly waved ; orbicular 

 represented by a grey point defined by black ; a sinuous 

 rufous medial line, oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then inwardly oblique ; reuiform well-developed, with rather 

 inegular brown outline; postrnedial line double, dentate, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, irregularly waved, defined by rufous on 

 inner side, below vein 4 incurved and with broad rufous 

 baud before it extending to postrnedial line ; a terminal sei'ies 

 of brown lunules ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 Ming deep black -brown with a slight blue gloss; underside 

 with the inner area rather paler, traces of a curved medial 

 line. 



Hah. S.W. New Guinea, Kapaur [Doherty), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 50 mm. 



Stictoptera crinopis, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen biown mixed with grey; 

 frons deep black ; tcgulee ochreous at base bounded by a deep 

 black line, then greenish grey ; metathorax with slight black 

 crest; pectus whitish ; legs very long, the tarsi fuscous with 

 pale rings ; abdomen with the slight dorsal crests dark. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with black, 

 tlie baj-al, inner, postrnedial, and apical areas darker, the 

 discal area paler ; subbasal line double, oblique, black, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, curved, minutely 

 waved ; orl)icular rather u-shaped; reuiform concave towards 

 base and with bi'own central line forming a spot at lower outer 

 side ; a black streak on vein 2 from cell to the postrnedial line. 



