Noctuitlae in the Jolcey Collect ion. 21. 



line almost lost in the dark costal shade ; antemedial line 

 ohsolescent, . f rom about one- third along costa, slightly- 

 oblique to just before M, where it is strongly angled inward, 

 then oblique to base at inner margin, bordering the dark 

 area ; pale area crossed by five or six oblique, undulating, 

 pale brown lines, all strongly angled inwards to behind IV , 

 and outwards behind R^ and R^ ; distal area from apex to 

 R'' slightly irrorated with brown; a double, oblique, red- 

 brown subterminal line from R^ to inner margin, with a 

 dark leaden-grey shade between it and the brown terminal 

 border, upon which there is a row of darker brown dots. 



Hind wing with the same colouring ; basal half pale, with 

 a dark cell-dot; four or five diffused grey lines on post- 

 medial area, followed by a dark red-brown line and a broad 

 leaden-grey shade, all the lines being straight and nearly 

 parallel to distal margin ; terminal area as on lower half of 

 distal margin of fore wing. 



Fringes of both wings brown with a pale line at base. 



Underside greyish-ochreous, irrorated and strigulated 

 W'ith dark brown. Fore wing with two small brown dots at 

 middle of discocellulars and a slightly crenulate brown post- 

 medial line, slightly excurved round cell and incurved to 

 fold, where it becomes obsolete. Hind wing with a single 

 cell-spot, a crenulate but less curved postmedial line, and a 

 dark subterminal streak at inner margin. Terminal dots 

 and fringes as above. 



S.E. Peru : Santo Domingo, GOOO ft., xi. 1904 (G. Ocken- 

 don)^ 1 ? . 



A single ? of this species in Coll. Brit. Mus., erroneously 

 labelled " Queensland," is placed by Sir George Hampson 

 between Z. plumbeolinea, Hmpsn., and Z. unilineata, Grote. 



MOMINJE. 



19. Elaodes barnsi, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 7.) 



c^ .—36 mm. 



Head and thorax green (the head tinged with ochreous) ; 

 palpus predominantly black ; pectus and legs white tinged 

 with greenish, the fore tarsus ringed with black ; abdomen 

 greyish-white. 



Fore wing white, thickly irrorated with green and in parts 

 with blackish, the lines and stigmata white defined on each 

 side by blackish (except a part of the postmedial line, proxi- 

 nially) ; the subbasal line erect and waved, almost obsolete 

 except behind costa and M ; antemedial line from costa at 



