during the Cruise of the ' Valhalla* 487 



Sylepta derogata, Fabr. 8jst. Eiit. p. Gil (1775j. 

 The Cerf, 1 ? . 



Glyphodes sericea^ Druiy, Iiia. ii. p. 9, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1770). 

 Mah6, 1 S . 



Glyphodes indica, Saund. Trans. Eat. >Soc. 1851, p. 163, 

 pi. xii. figs. 5, 6, 7. 



Mali(5, 2 (3^ . 



Glyphodes sinuata, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 267 (1781). 

 Mahd, 1 ? . 



Descuiptions of New Species from vauious Locamtiks. 

 Noctuidae. 



CaTOCALIjVJS. 



Genus ACANTIIODELTA, uov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, tbe 

 second joint reaching vertex of head and fringed with hair in 

 front, the third moderate, rather porrcct; frons smooth, with 

 tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antenruB of male laminate ; 

 head and thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; 

 all the tibiai spined and smoothly scaled ; pectus with long 

 hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rectangular, the termen obliquely curved, 

 creimlate ; vein 3 from well befure angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above angle; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosiug 

 with 8 to form the arecle ; 11 from cell. Fore sving with tiie 

 costa extending well beyond tornus of fore wing, the termen 

 crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 fully deve- 

 loped from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 approxi- 

 mated to the cell to beyond middle. 



Acanthodelta distriga, sp. n. 



(^. Head and thorax fuscous brown with a reddish linge; 

 anteimfe white above; tibiie and tarsi greyish; abdomen 

 greyish irrorated with brown. Fore wing fuscous brown 

 irrorated with grey, the costal area tinged with purplish ; a 

 black discoidal point; u dilFused white fascia in submediun 

 fold from before to well l»eyond middle, with a postmedial 

 black point on it ; a slight white streak above vein o from 



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