new Species o/Noctaldae. 601 



below costa and at middle and ending near tornus ; a slight 

 oblique dark discoidal bar ; a subterminal series of small 

 fuscous spots, somewhat oblique from costa to vein 6^ slightly 

 incurved at discal fold and exciirved. at middle. Hind wing 

 and underside uniform fuscous brown. 



Hab. Nigeria, Old Calabar [Miss Kingsleij, Smipson, 

 Crompto7i), 4 (J type. Exj). 32-38 mm. 



Tyana acypera, sp. n. 

 Tynna pitstulifera, Leecli, Traus. Eat. Soc. 1899, p. 203 (uec Wik.). 



^ . Hind wing with a large glandular swelling at tornus 

 clothed with flocculent hair on underside, the inner margin 

 fringed with long hair ; fore wing with the apex extremely 

 produced and acute, the termen almost straight. 



Head and thorax bright green; palpi red, white below; frons 

 yellow, with crimson line above; antennae red ringed with 

 white ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae and tarsi red ; 

 abdomen dorsally brown, ventrally whitish. Fore wing bright 

 green; the costal edge brown irrorated with grey, the extreme 

 tip of apex crimson ; brown points at angles of cell ; cilia 

 yellow. Hind wing pure white, the hair on inner margin 

 slightly tinged with fuscous. 



? . Fore wing with the apex less produced, the termen 

 rounded; vertex of head crimson and yellow; tegulje and 

 base of patagia yellow, with some crimson on shoulders; 

 abdomen white, with minute crimson tuft at base. Fore 

 wing with the ground-colour whitish, almost completely 

 covered with green irroration, the costa and inner margin 

 white ; a small crimson annulus with yellow centre at lower 

 angle of cell, sometimes filled in with crimson. 



Hab. Centr. ChinAj Omei-shan, 1 (^ type; Pu-tsu-fong, 

 2 ? . Ea:p. 38 mm. 



Ariola xanthobasis, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi, tegulse (except at 

 middle), and metathorax tinged with rufous ; pectus whitish, 

 legs mostly dark brown ; abdomen fuscous brown, ochreous 

 at base, the claspers large, white at sides, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing with the basal area pale yellow, bounded 

 by a curved, rather diffused, brilliant silver line from costa 

 before middle to middle of inner margin, the costa tinged 

 with rufous ; the rest of wing uniform very deep chocolate- 

 brown. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; the underside 

 pale, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with 



