180 Col. 0. Swinhoe on new 



large ocellus of the fore wing oval and somewhat concave on 

 its inner side as in Snellen's species from Celebes, but it differs 

 from all the other species in having the dark transverse bands 

 on both wings evenly curved and not sinuous, and in having 

 only two bands, ante- and postmedial. Underside with a 

 single discal macular band &?,'\nnyctaculis, the spots smaller, 

 but with no indication of any submarginal spots. 



Expanse of wings 4j^ inches. 



Hab. Lombok Island. 



This example much resembles a male in the B. M. from 

 the Philippines wrongly representing nyctaculis, Snellen, 

 from the Celebes ; in my collection there is a good female 

 example of Snellen^s species from the Celebes, not at all 

 resembling my Lombok female. 



Noctuidae. 

 Ericia epitheca, nov. 



(J. Fore wing long and narrow ; colour of both wings 

 fuscous, as in typical E. inangulata, Guenee, irrorated with 

 brown atoms, the orbicular a brown dot, the reniform a 

 brown spot; medial and discal bands across both wings 

 slightly darker than the ground-colour, indistinct and nearly 

 straight ; the discal band expanding upwards on the fore 

 wing, its outer edge sinuous. Underside with all but the 

 base and abdominal area of the hind wing suffused with 

 brown ; two medial crenulate brown lines across both wings, 

 and indications of a submarginal band ; antennae unusually 

 long and heavily ciliated. 



? . Like the male, but paler. Upperside with the bands 

 nearly obsolete; the discal band with a large brown spot in 

 the lirst interspace and a brown streak from the costa. 

 Underside very much paler; a brown spot in the middle of 

 the cell of the fore wing, a brownish postdiscal thin band 

 across both wings and two fine lines near its inner side. 



Expanse of wings, S '^lo, ? 2 j^^q inches. 



Hab. Fergusson Island. 



Sypna ludifica, nov. 



(J ? . Upperside very dark blackish brown : fore wing 

 minutely irrorated with ochreous ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, ochreous, ringed with black ; four indistinct trans- 

 verse bands, slightly darker than the ground-colour, each 

 band with an ochreous lunular line down the margins, a 

 submarginal sinuous black band : hind wing paler, a thin 



