Noctaidte ?n the Jotcey CoHecfion. 7 



Fore wing with the basal third and a large postmedial 

 costal patch ochreous, thickly irrorated Avith red-orange ; 

 the rest of the wing white, closely irrorated with grey-violet; 

 lines indistinct; antemedial, medial, and postmedial white 

 spots on costa; indistinct, blackish, sinuons antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial lines, all angled outward before 

 middle, then somewhat incurved to hind margin ; an indis- 

 tinct maculate subterminal line, following the curve of the 

 postmedial ; a white streak from costa near apex to termeu 

 about R', and a curved white streak from ^V near termen 

 to toruus, the two being connected by slight white spots; 

 fringe grey-brown. 



Hind wing pale ochreous, the distal half grey-violet 

 narrowing to apex and tornus ; a white dash from INP to 

 termen near tornus, and a white spot on abdominal margin 

 just proximally to tornus ; fringe grey-violet with a fine 

 pale line at base. 



Underside of fore -wing violet -grey, posteriorly pale 

 ochreous; slight dark cell-spot and double curved postmedial 

 line ; the Avhite terminal line of the upper surface showing 

 near apex and on hind-marginal half of wing. Hind wing 

 as above, with the addition of a dark cell-spot, with some 

 violet suffusion above it, and a slight postmedial line. 



Amboina, type only. 



Can be easily distinguished from both fulvipicta and 

 plusioides by the deeper tone of colour, the broader border 

 to the hind wMng, the absence of the diffused black streak in 

 the basal half of cell, etc. 



Stictoptebinjs. 

 4. Stictoptera plumbeoilncta, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 



? . — 36 mm. 



Head and thorax leaden-violet, mixed with some ochreous 

 scales ; palpus and antennal shaft ochreous shaded with 

 leaden-violet ; dorsum of abdomen grey -brown, w^ith the 

 basal crests a little redder ; body beneath pale ochreous ; 

 legs pale ochreous sliaded wnth violet. 



Fore wing pale ochreous, largely suffused with leaden-violet, 

 especially on the basal area to medial line and on apical 

 area, leaving a subtriangular patch of the ground-colour 

 on distal part of hind margin ; sub-basal and antemedial 

 lines almost obsolete, the latter purplish-grey, undulating, 

 starting close to medial line, then incurved, strongly ex- 

 curved before hind margin ; medial line black, with some 



