On tn'ir Sjiec/es of Kastern Lepidoptera. 5 



(It'iiticK's. Tliey arc thus distinctly new and may receive tlie 

 provisional name ot' liiiLocerdo Jae/celi, in compliment to tiie 

 author ot" the most important contribution hitherto made to 

 our knowletlge of the extinct Carchariidnj *. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE l. 



Fiij. 1. Dij>/i»)ti/,<ttuj<i lom/icostatux, Copt*. Fisli in latenil aspect, probiibly 



wiinfiii',' the anterior dorsal niarj,'in. — C'retaceou.-i ; liabiu, 



Ih-Hzil. [j^rit. Mu8. no. P. 710'.).] 

 Fiffg. 2-4. DiplomyntuK liirdi, sn. n. 'i'liree fi.ihes in lateral aspect. — 



Upper Crt'tnci'ous; Ilakel, Mount Lebanon, Syria. [Brit. M us. 



u.)3. V.S-.i, P. tMJ, P. Uda.] 

 Fit/. 5. Galeocenln Jaihcli, sp. n. Tootb, inner a.spect. — Chalk ; Kent. 



[Brit. Mu.-*. no. 4170(W/.] 

 Figs. 0, 7. Ditto. Two teetii, outer aspect. — Chalk, Kent. [Mantua 



Collection.] 



[All the tig^ures are of the natural size.] 



III. — Nexo Species of E,i stern Lepidoptera. 

 By Col. C. SwiNHoi:," M.A., F.L.S., V.P.E.S. 



[Continued from vol. xiv. p. 443.] 

 Noctuidae. 



Genus Acronycta, Ochs. 

 Acronycta ga&tridia, sp. n. 



(J. Thorax grey : fore wings greyish white, irrorated with 

 brown atoms ; orbicular round and black-ringed ; reniform 

 brown, with a thin black bar on each side ; basal and ante- 

 medial double crenulated black transverse lines ; a discal 

 black line, with sharp outward dentations on the veins ; an 

 indistinct submarginal whitish dentated band and black points 

 on the margin : hind wings grey, with a darker lunular mark 

 at the end ot the cell. Underside : fore wings greyish brown ; 

 hind wings greyish white, with a grey lunular mark at the 

 end of each cell. 



Expanse of wings li inch. 



Murree. One example. 



ISomewhat akin to the European A. psi, Linn. 



• O. .Taekel, ' l)ie eocanen Selacbier vora Monte Bolca' (18U4), 

 pp. l.")t> 17"). 



