Genera atul Species 0/ Agari.stida> and Noctuiilae. .^G') 



^itli black hands. Fore wing silvery white ; the costal cdj^e 

 orange ; snhhasal line represented hy black strife from costa 

 and cell ; anteniedial line black, erect, minutely and irregu- 

 larly waved ; a black discoidal striga ; j)()stmedial line l)lacl<, 

 minutely waved, slightly excurvcd below costa, somewhat 

 ()bli(|ue to lower angle of cell, then erect; a series of small 

 black spots on apical |)art of costa and tcrmen. Hind wing 

 white; a small blackish discoidal spot and terminal series 

 of small black spots from ajjcx to vein 2 ; cilia slightly 

 tinged with yellow. Underside of fore wing wliolly sullused 

 with black ; hind wing with the diseoidal spot prominent. 



Ila/j. TuANsvAALj Kranspruit (^Juinfe), 1 c? ^VP^. E.rp. 

 oC) nun. 



Agaristidae. 

 158 a. Tucrta insulica, sp. n. 



(^ . Head and thorax chocolate-red mixed with wliite ; 

 jjalpi black, white at base and tips; frons white ; antennio 

 brown ; pectus white, yellow at sides ; abdomen yellow, with 

 the crests brown. Fore wing white, thickly irrorated with 

 chocolate-red ; subbasal line represented by a red striga 

 from costa ; antcmedial line indistinct, red, oblique, irre- 

 gular; orbicular and rcuiforni represented by rather diil'used 

 red patches with silvery centres, the former rather elliptical, 

 the latter somewhat quadrate, white patches between and 

 beyond them ; postmedial line absent ; subterminal line 

 represented by an obscure series of somewhat dentate choco- 

 late marks, with some silver scales on them and some 

 whitish beyond them; terminal area darker; cilia chocolate, 

 with series of small white si)ots at base. Hind wing golden 

 yellow, with a broad black-brown terminal band tinged with 

 red, its inner edge excurvcd at middle; cilia white. Under- 

 side of fore w ing with the basal half yellow, the terminal 

 half red-brown, the white bars before and beyond reniform 

 prominent. 



J Jab. Trixidad {Kaye), 1 c? type. Exp. 36 mm. 



Noctuidae. 



ji ojrotixj:. 



Genus Metopoplacis, nov. 



Typo, .)/. olirata. 



Proboscis fully develoi)cd ; palpi upturned, the second joint 

 hardly reaching to middle of frons and moderately fringed 



