Noctuid^e in the Joicey Collection. 27 



Opsiberin^. 

 23. Hulodes hilaris (Warr., MS. ?), sp. n. (PI. IV. fig. 3.) 



cJ . — 75 mm. 



Head, tegulse, pectus, and legs grey-brown ; pectus, 

 femora, tibiae, and first four joints of hind tarsus clothed 

 with long rough hair. Thorax above and abdomen ochreous- 

 grey, the prdthorax with bright ochreous band ; patagia 

 spotted with black and tipped with grey-brown. 



Both wings shaped and marked nearly as in Hulodes drylla, 

 Gn., but hilaris averages larger and is more ochreous in 

 tone. 



Fore wing somewhat heavily irrorated with black ; sub- 

 basal and antemedial lines and black orbicular point as in 

 drijlla ; medial bar from costa to reniform blacker ; reniform 

 lunule as in drylla, but with a conspicuous pale lunule 

 surrounding the lower end of it ; postmedial line starting 

 from a black dash on costa at 15 mm., strongly angled out- 

 wards to SC^, incurved to R^, obsolescent to about R^ where 

 it reappears just proximally to a red-brown, black-mixed, 

 oblique streak from apex, of which it becomes almost a 

 continuation obliquely to two-fitths inner margin, where 

 there is a black spot on distal side of it. 



Hind wing marked as in drylla, but with the black medial 

 line a little nearer to the body, the diffused shades between 

 postmedial and subterminal lines red-brown (grey in drylla), 

 with a broader white shade distally to the subterminal line. 

 Termen red-brown ; fringe dark brown from apex to the 

 angle of wing, then pale to tornus. 



Underside as in drylla, but with the lines a little more 

 strongly marked. 



A second ^ has the red shades more ochreous. 



Dutch New Guinea: Wardammen Mts., 3000-4000 ft., 

 November 1914< {A. E. £f F. Pratt), type and another S • 



No doubt the New Guinea representative of H. drylla, but 

 can hardly be regarded as a race, on account of the different 

 palpus, the third segment of which in hilaris is slightly 

 porrect and half the length of the second, whilst in drylla it 

 is upright and less than one-third the length of segment 2. 



2-i. Platyja retrahens, sp. n. (PI. IV. fig. 4.) 



? . — 57 mm. 



Head, thorax, palpus, fore wing, and abdominal crests 

 reddish-brown ; abdomen above, body beneath, and legs 

 grey-brown, tarsi with ends of segments white ; hind wing 

 and both wings beneath brown tinged in parts with reddish. 



