Noctuidae in the Joicey Collection: 19 



Fore wing pale flesh-colour ; costal edge black towards 

 base ; a wedge-shaped black mark behind the cell ; a narrow 

 black fascia along hind margin from near base to just 

 beyond middle ; an outwardly oblique, triangular black 

 patch just proximally to middle^ its distal edge angled out- 

 ward across DC* and its extremity produced in a narrow 

 streak to fold near termen; carmine streaks on M^ and 

 M~ distally to the dark patch; a black subtornal spot, 

 distally edged with cerise-pink ; a triangular black patch 

 from costa at apex to near termen behind Mi, with a slight, 

 fine line proximally to it ; black spots on termen at M^ and 

 M~ and a black spot on the fringe between them. 



Hind wing reddish-ochreous, paler towards costa, with a 

 wedge-shaped black mark from apex to R^^ small black spots 

 near termen before and behind M^ and at fold, and on termen 

 at M^ and M^ ; veins slightly redder. 



Underside of both wings ochreous-yellow ; the fore wing 

 with the irregular medial patch faintly visible and with the 

 terminal black patch present, but less deep and glossy than 

 above, ending at M^, with black spots on fringe behind 

 Ml and at fold; hind wing with the terminal black mark 

 ending behind Ri, without black spots behind it. 

 Zomba Plateau, October 1919 {H. Barlovj). 



16. Safia mollis, Moschl. 



A (^^ of this species in Coll. Joicey, from Caparo, W. Coast 

 of Trinidad [F. Birch), proves it to belong to Sect. i. of 

 Hampsou, not Sect, ii., where it is placed in Cat. Lep. Phal. 

 xiii. p. 189. The cJ does not appear to differ from the ? 

 except in the presence of the audroconia on the under surface 

 and in the much more elongate apex of the fore wing. 



17. Safia hyalina, sp. n. (PI. III. fig. 5.) 



(^ . — 50 mm. 



Head, palpus, thorax, and legs black-brown irrorated with 

 white, the thorax with a few golden scales, especially on the 

 metathoracic crest, the tarsi white at tips of segments, mid- 

 tibial tuft of hair paler brown. Abdomen grey-brown, -with 

 yellowish-white band on 2nd segment and spot on 3rd (a 

 little more extended than in S. mollis, to which species 

 hyalina seems nearest). 



Fore wing semihyaline white with an ochreous tinge and 

 some brown irroration; a few violet scales on basal one- 

 third of wing. A black-ringed white spot behind M at base ; 

 9 dark spots along costa, the 3rd, 5th, and 7th broad, 



