On nctc Genera atid Species of Syutomid-x. 221 



ill a curve and rcfl xe<l outwards over the umbilicus; aperture 

 roundly ovate ; operculum concave, horny, paueispiral. 



Alt. '6 15, diam. ni;ij. ',V'25 mm. 



Aperture: alt. 12^), diam. 1 mm. 



JJab. New Caledonia. 



Somewhat closely allied to Ili/d rocena caledonica, Cvoaae '^ ; 

 it is, however, smaller, has one whorl more, is not so globose, 

 and is darker in colour ; the sutures are not so deep an I the 

 base is less convex ; moreover it is easily recognizable from 

 H. cahdonica by its much less varici^ated appearance, the 

 grey streaks in A. turhinata being only visible in a strong 

 liilht. 



XXIX. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Synto- 

 midye, Arctiadse, Agaristida% and Noctuidfe. By Sir 

 Geokge F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S. 



The following paper forms a fourth supplement to the first 

 six volumes of the ' Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalsnai in the 

 British Mu.seum,' the former paper-s having appeared in the 

 Ann. <t Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. viii. pp. ] 6-3-1 86 (1901), 

 vol. xi. pp. 337-3r>l (1903), and vol. xv. pp. •^b-iho (1905). 

 The numbers before the species indicate their position in the 

 classification adopted in those volumes. The types are in the 

 British Museum. 



Syntomidae. 

 11a. Ceryx albipuncta, sp. n. 



(J . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; frons 

 white; tegulae with lateral white patches; patagia with 

 white streaks on outer edge ; dorsum of thorax with white 

 streak, metathorax with wiiitish patch ; sides of pectus and 

 coxae with white patches ; hind femora streaked with white ; 

 abdomen with dorsal series of small whitish spots except at 

 extremity and complete ventral series of whitish bands. 

 Fore wing black-brown ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in 

 cell ; a patch in submedian interspace from base to near 

 termen, its lower edge indented by a small dark tootli at 

 middle ; a spot above base of vein 2 ; a postmedial streak 

 above vein 6 and slight streak above 7 ; elongate spots above 

 veins 4, 3. Hind wing black-brown, with small hyaline 



• Journ. de Conch, xvii. 1S69, pp. 24 & 25. 



