74 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Noctuid Moths 



Dissolophus aluensi'sj sp. n. (PI. IX. fi^. 4.) 



($ . Nearest to D. chloriza, smaller ; primaries golden 

 argillaceous, with bands of a darker shade, the central belt 

 more regular than usual, less constricted, with black-dotted 

 darker edges bounded by silver lines, the discoidal markings 

 represented by an oblique wiiite omega ; three black dots, 

 bounded by a bisinuated white line, at base ; a zigzag whitish 

 submarginal streak from apex to near inner margin ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black-dotied white spots ; fringe tipped with 

 silvery white and dotted with black : secondaries sericeous 

 whity brown, greyish towards base, with a submarginal grey 

 band ; a dark grey discocellular crescent ; two or three sub- 

 apical black dots on outer margin ; fringe tipped with silvery 

 white : body golden argillaceous ; collar with one or two 

 black dots in the centre ; abdomen darker than thorax. Pri- 

 maries below greyish, the borders creamy white, a blackish 

 diffused patch divided by the subcostal vein towards end of 

 cell ; a whitish-bordered transverse irregular line crossing the 

 wing at external third ; a black oblique diffused dash, int(;r- 

 rupted by the usual pale costal dots, at apex ; black dots on 

 the fringe as above : secondaries creamy white; costal area 

 irrorated with black scales ; discocellulars and a denticulated 

 line beyond the middle blackish ; three or four black dots on 

 outer margin : pectus cream-coloured ; venter, legs, and 

 outside of palpi ochraceous ; the usual blackish tut't at base of 

 liind legs. 



Expanse of wings 23 millim. 



Alu, Solomon Islands. Type Coll. B. M. 



This is smaller than either of the other species of this genus. 



Dissolophus repletus. (PI. IX. fig. 5.) 

 Callopistria repleta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. xii. p. 805. u. 13 (1857). 

 North India, Dharmsala; Osaka, Japan. Type Coll. B. M. 



Hyperdasys, Butler. 



Type Hyperdasys exotica. (PI. IX. lig. G.) 

 Callopistria exotica, Gucn^e, Noct. ii. p. 294. n. 1007. 

 .[ava. Type Coll. B. M. 



