THE AiNNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOKY. 



(NINIH SURIIM.] 



" pcrlitorasparijite uniseuin, 



Naiades, et circiuu vitreos oonsiiii'te fonti's : 

 PoUice virgiueo tcmeros liic caqjite (lores : 

 Floribus et iiietum, divse, replcti' eanistriiin. 

 At V08, o NymphsB Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 IiH, reeiirvato variata corallia triinco 

 Vellite musoosis e rupibus, et mibi conchas 

 Ferte, Dese pelagi, et piiif^iii conchylia succo." 



N.Parfhenii Giantiettaii, Kol. 1 . 



No. 43. JULY 1921. 



I. — Notes on some Noctuidse in the Joicey Collection, with 

 Descriptions of new Species. By Miss A. K. Prout, 

 F.E.S. 



[Plates I.- VII.] 



Introductory Note. 



In publishing the following notes, I wish gratefully to 

 acknowledge my deep indebtedness to Mr. J. J. Joicey for 

 the opportunities of study he has so kindly afforded me by 

 entrusting to me the responsible task of working out his fine 

 and rapidly-increasing collection of the Noctuidae of the 

 world. The accompanying paper is the outcome of my 

 studies of the Joicey Collection, and the types will in all 

 cases be found there, unless otherwise specified. 



I wish, further, to acknowledge gratefully my indebtedness 

 to Sir George F. Hampson for help and advice given me in 

 my studies at the British Museum, and especially so for 

 the invaluable service he has rendered to all students of the 

 Noctuidse by his standard work on the family, which has 

 done so much to render the working out of tliis large and 



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