580 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



LX XVI. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of 

 Noctuidae. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S. 



The following paper forms a seventli supplement to the first 

 thirteen volumes of the ' Catalogue of Lepidoptera P liaise use 

 in the British Museum, 5 1898-1913. As, however, Supple- 

 mentary Volumes of the Catalogue to vols. i. to Hi. will 

 shortly be issued, descriptions of the species belonging to 

 the Families classified in those volumes are reserved for the 

 Supplement. 



The former papers 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), vol. xix. pp. 221-257 

 (1907), and ser. 8, vol. iv. pp. 314-388 (1909), and vol. viii. 

 pp. 393-445 (1911). 



The numbers before the species indicate their position in 

 the classification adopted in those volumes. The types are 

 in the British Museum. 



Noctuidae. 



Agrotinje. 



49 a. Chloridea conifer a, sp. n. 



cJ. Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown; palpi 

 white at base; fore legs darker brown; abdomen yellowish 

 mixed with brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown, 

 the discal area whiter ; small blackish subbasal spots at costa 

 and median nervure ; antemedial line black, reduced to points 

 on costal half, oblique to submedian fold, then inwardly 

 oblique and incurved at vein 1 ; a conical blackish patch 

 from middle of costa enclosing the reniform, which has a 

 faint pale annulus, an indistinct oblique line from it to 

 inner margin ; traces of a dark postmedial line excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line dark, with some 

 dark suffusion before it on costal area, slightly excurved 

 below vein 7; a lunulate black terminal line; cilia dark 

 brown. Hind wing yellow ; the base dark brown, emitting 

 a short streak on vein 1, the inner margin reddish brown ; a 

 large black discoidal lunule ; the terminal area black-brown, 

 its inner edge excurved at middle, then incurved ; a yellow 

 patch on termen between veins 4 and 2 ; cilia whitish 

 towards tornus ; the underside with the costal half whitish, 

 the termen towards apex and the patch at middle whitish. 



Hub. Transvaal, Johannesburg {Cooke), 1 S type. 

 Exp. 30 nun. 



