Noctaidte in the Joicei/ Collection. 7 



Fore' wing with the basal third and a large postmedial 

 costal patch ochreous, thickly irrorated with red-orange ; 

 the rest of the wing white, closeh' irrorated with grey-violet; 

 lines indistinct; anteniedial, medial, and postmedial white 

 spots on costa; indistinct, blackish, sinuous antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial lines, all angled outward before 

 middle, then somewhat incurved to hind margin ; an indis- 

 tinct maculate subterminal line, following the curve of the 

 postmedial ; a white streak from costa near apex to termen 

 about R', and a curved white streak from M^ near termen 

 to tornus, the two being connected by slight white spots ; 

 fringe grey-brown. 



Hind wing pale ochreous, the distal half grey-violet 

 narrowing to apex and tornus; a white dash from M^ to 

 termen near tornus, and a white spot on abdominal margin 

 just proximally to tornus ; fringe grey-violet with a fine 

 pale line at base. 



Underside of fore wing violet -grey, posteriorly pale 

 ochreous; slight dark cell-spot and double curved postmedial 

 line ; the white terminal line of the upper surface showing 

 near apex and on hind-marginal half of wing. Hind wing 

 as above, with the addition of a dark celUspot, with some 

 violet suffusion above it, and a slight postmedial line. 



Amboina, type only. 



Can be easily distinguished from both fidvipicta and 

 plusioides by the deeper tone of colour, the broader border 

 to the hind wing, the absence of the diffused black streak in 

 the basal half of cell, etc. 



Stictof tebin^. 

 4. Stictoptera plumbeotincta, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 



? .—36 mm. 



Head and thorax leaden-violet, mixed with some ochreous 

 scales; palpus and antennal shaft ochreous shaded with 

 leaden-violet ; dorsum of abdomen grey-))rown, with the 

 basal crests a little redder ; body beneath pale otdireous ; 

 legs pale ochreous shaded with violet. 



Fore wing pale ochreous, largely suffused with leaden-violet, 

 especially on the basal area to medial line and on apical 

 area, leaving a subtriangular patch of the ground-colour 

 on distal part of hind margin ; sub-basal and anteniedial 

 lines, almost obsolete, the latter purplish-grey, undulating, 

 starting close to medial line, then incurved, strongly ex- 

 curved before hind mai'gin ; medial line black, with some 



