344 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



XLT. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Syntomiclje, 

 Arctiadse, Agaristidae, and Noctuidse. By Sir George F. 

 Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S. 



The following paper forms a fifth supplement to the first six 

 volumes of the * Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalsense in the 

 British Museum/ the former papers having appeared in the 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. viii. pp. 165-186 (1901), 

 vol. xi. pp. 337-351 (1903), vol. xv. pp. 425-453 (1905), and 

 voh xix. pp. 221-257 (1907). 



The numhers before the species indicate their position in 

 the classification adopted iu those volumes. The types are 

 in the British Museum. 



SyntomidsB. 

 232 a. Hyalcethea hivitreaia, sp. n. 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; palpi (except at 

 tips), frons, shoulders, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen orange. Fore wing brown, with a purplish tinge; 

 a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell and elongate triangular 

 patch below the cell from near base to near tornus. Hind 

 wing brown, the base yellow, the lobe on inner margin 

 yellow. 



Hub. Tenimbeb, Larat, 2 (J type. Exp. 22 mm. 



287 b. Metarctia phceoptera, sp. n, 



? . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; antennae with some 

 pink hair on basal joint in front ; prothorax with a slight 

 pink spot ; pectus with lateral pinkish streaks ; coxse and 

 femora with some pinkish hair ; abdomen dark brown, with 

 pinkish segmental rings. Fore wing uniform fuscous brown, 

 the cilia greyish at tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 disk somewhat semihyaline ; cilia gi'eyish at tips. 



Hab. Upper Congo (IFollaston), 1 ? type. Eap. Siimm. 



287 c. Metarctia pumila, sp. n. 



(J. Head aud thorax dark reddish brown; abdomen 

 yellowish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing uniform red- 

 brown with a greyish tinge. Hind wing white suffused with 

 ochreous. 



? . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; sides of pectus and 

 coxae with some yellow ; abdomen yellowish suffused with 

 fuscous brown forming obscure bands, the ventral surface 



