412 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of 



primaries, the three pearly spots in primaries, less regular and 

 interrupted golden-yellow borders, and yellow anal segments 

 of abdomen. 



Genus 82. Aglossa, Latreille. 

 102. Aglossa noctuina, n. sp. 



Primaries dark rosy brown, base blackish ; two transverse 

 irregular black lines and a black discocellular dot, exactly as 

 in A. laminalis) a marginal row of black dots; fringe red- 

 brown, shining : secondaries whity brown, with the veins 

 slightly reddish ; a dusky spot at base of discocellular cleft, 

 and an irregular dusky discal line parallel to the outer margin : 

 palpi, antenna;, head, and thorax deep rosy brown ; abdomen 

 dull black, with pale margins to the segments ; anus testaceous. 

 Wings below pale grey ; costal areas rosy tinted, costal margins 

 black, dotted with whitish ; a continuous dusky discal line ; 

 dusky lunate spots on discocellulars ; cell of primaries spotted 

 with dusky : body below shining rosy brownish ; front of 

 pectus deep chocolate-brown ; legs testaceous, tibias and tarsi 

 of two front pairs black above, dotted with whitish. Expanse 

 of wings 1 inch. 



Natal. 



Allied to A. laminalis, but easily distinguished by its much 



deeper coloration and the markings on secondaries. 



103. Aglossa ocularis^ n. sp. 



Primaries above grey ; a cuneiform patch of stramineous 

 crossed by the discocellulars, the position of which is marked 

 by an oblique reniform stigma; a very oblique black line 

 beginning, distinct, at base of inner margin, but fading away 

 as it reaches the back of the stramineous patch ; a second, 

 dentate-sinuate oblique line from near the centre of inner 

 margin, bounding the stramineous patch externally, and run- 

 ning almost to costa ; an irregular zigzag discal stramineous 

 band ; a submarginal series of eight black lunular liturae : 

 secondaries sordid pale testaceous, with a broad external grey 

 border, interrupted by a submarginal pale stramineous streak ; 

 two dotted grey discal lines, and a dusky spot at end of cell : 

 body grey, head and collar slightly reddish, fringe at back of 

 thorax whitish. Primaries below grey, internal area pale ; a 

 patch over the end of cell whitish, crossed by an oblique dusky 

 spot ; costa white-dotted : secondaries creamy white ; a black 

 spot at end of cell and another at anal angle, two discal dotted 

 grey lines ; a broad grey border as above ; a submarginal dull 

 red streak, leaving one spot of whitish near apex, its anal 

 termination being also whitish : body below sordid greyish 



