Noctuido) in the Joiceij Collection. 5 



Agrotinoe and the Plusianoe which have the hiad tibia spiiied 

 and the mid-tibia uoii-spined. 



Erastbianm. 



1. Lophoruza rubrimacula, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 1.) 



^ . — 24 mm. 



Head and thorax above pinkish white with some brown 

 scales intermingled (chiefly on head and tegul?e) ; body 

 beneath and Ici^s whitish ; dorsum of abdomen with the basal 

 and anal segments pinkish white, the medial segments brown, 

 mixed with black. 



Fore wing with the costal half, from apex to hind margin 

 at nearly one-third, pinkish-white with the costa tinged with 

 tawny brown; the rest of the wing pale tawny-brown, some- 

 what darker where it meets the pale shade, the termen 

 distinctly darkened from apex to behind R^ ; a tawny streak 

 at base of wing, extending across metathorax ; some brown 

 shading in middle of cell ; antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines just visible as pale, dark-outlined, outwardly 

 oblique streaks on the costal tawny shade, the two former 

 becoming obsolescent behind SC, the latter indistinctly 

 continued as a punctiform dark line, excurved round cell, 

 then incurved to inner margin at about two-thirds ; a fine 

 white subterniinal line, expanding to a conspicuous white 

 spot on R", behind which it is angled outward, with some 

 proximal black dots anteriorly ; a rufous proximal patch 

 between the radials, and three ochreous spots (one proximal 

 and two distal) between SC and R^ ; a row of black marginal 

 spots and a fine dark marginal line ; fringe pale tawny- 

 brown chequered with blackish-brown. 



Hind wing with the base pinkish-white, the rest of the 

 wing pale tawny-brown, almost whitish about the subterminal 

 area; a slight, dark, waved postmedial line; a small sub- 

 terminal rufous spot behind M^ and a large one from IVP to 

 near abdominal margin, with a small brown one behind it ; 

 marginal spots and line and fringe as on fore wing. 



Wings beneath whitish tinged w'ith taAvny-brow^n, with 

 slight curved crenulate postmedial and subterminal lines ; 

 margins as above, but less sharply marked ; discal spots very 

 slight. 



? . — 26 mm. Marked as in the 3", but with the pinkish 

 and tawny shades both a trifle brighter. 



Upper Tonkin : Muong-Khuong, Prov. Laokay, 900- 

 1000 m., type and 1 ? . 

 Nearest to albicosialis, Leech., from Central China, from 



