482 Sir G. F. Hampson on the Moths collectel 



Subsp. 2. — Differs from the typical form in having both 

 tlie black, and scarlet spots of fore wing well developed. 

 Aldabra, 2 ? . 



Noctuidae. 



A GROTIN^. 



Chlnridea assulta, Guen, Noct. ii. p. 178 (1852). 

 Assumption, 1 c?, 1 ? . 



EuA'oa microtica, sp. n. 



cJ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey-wlilte ; 

 palpi with patches of black on first and second joints; frons 

 with lateral black patches ; tegulse black-brown at base ; 

 pectus mostly white ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men white dorsally, tinged with ochreous, ventrally slightly 

 irroi-ated with brown. Fore wing red-brown, largely suffused 

 with white, the veins with black streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by a black striga from costa and a small quadrate 

 spot below the cell, with pale rufous patch beyond it and 

 another above inner margin before the antemedial line, which 

 is angled outwards below costa and in cell, excurved in sub- 

 median interspace, then almost obsolete; claviform moderate, 

 fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former small, 

 round; a curved medial shade; postmedial line indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 black points on the veins, incurved at discal fold and oblique 

 below vein 4, some black points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by small 

 dentate red-brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, 2 ; a fine black terminal line; cilia pale 

 rufous. Hind wing white, the veins and a terminal line 

 brown ; cilia ochreous, white at tips. 



Assumption, 1 ^. Exp. 26 mm. 



Allied to E. segetum. 



A CONTIANJS. 



Aconiia malvce, Esp. Schmett. iv. (2) p. 63, pi. cxcv. fig. 4 

 (1788). 

 Gloriosa, 1 ? . 



CATOCZmJE. 



OpUusa algira, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 83G (17G6). 

 Gloriosa, 3 ^ , 3 ? . 



