Eastern and African Lepidoplera. 505 



beyond the middle, the latter mucli bent inwards befon^ 

 descending to the hinder margin. Underside : wings, body, 

 and legs pure white. 



Expanse of wings 'i^-Q inches. 



S. Java^ 1500 feet (^Fruhstorfer) . 



Family Noctuidae. 

 Cerynea decor ata, no v. 



S $. Frons, palpi, head, and patagia white; tliorax, 

 abdomen, and both wings uniform chocolate-brown ; abdomen 

 with the first two segments white : fore wings with an ante- 

 medial rather broad white band, outwardly angled above its 

 middle, some basal white lines, a white line from the angle 

 to the costa, then bent outwards and downwards, a sub- 

 marginal sinuous white line joined to the outer margin below 

 the apex, where there is some white suffusion, and again 

 above the middle : hind wings with a white basal space, and 

 white abdominal margin, an inner white line nearly straight, 

 and a discal white line acutely angled to the outer margin at 

 the middle ; marginal line of both wings white, with white 

 points. 



Expanse of wings j^ inch. 



Siam, Muok-Lek, 1000 feet, January (Fruhstorfer) . 



There is a female from Bhutan in the B. M., with Q. reti- 

 culata, Walker, Trifid drawer no. 209. 



Corgatha pusilla, nov. 



$ . Palpi, frons, and collar ochreous grey ; body and wings 

 above of a uniform chocolate-brown colour ; costa of fore 

 wings with four prominent white spots — first at base, second 

 before the middle, third beyond the middle, fourth at the 

 apex ; faint indications of antemedial and postraedial bands ; 

 marginal line of both wings brown and crenulated, with 

 white points on the fore wings. Underside : wings, body, and 

 legs ochreous white ; outer veins grey ; a grey, outwardly 

 curved, thin, discal band on the fore wings. 



Expanse of wings ^-^ inch. 



Siam, Muok-Lek, 1000 feet, January (Fruhstorfer) . 



There are some examples in the B. M. wrongly named 

 quadricosian'a, Walker; but that species has only two white 

 spots pn the costa o£ fore wings, the first subbasal and the 

 other in the middle, and is figured from a photograph of the 

 type in Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p, 69. 



