THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF iNATDRAL HISTOEY, 



[NIXIH SKRIM.] 



" perlitora sparjjite luuseiim, 



Naiades, et circiuu vitreos considite foiiCfS : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite florea : 

 Floribus et pictiim. divse. replete oanistrum. 

 At Tos, o JfrniphasCrateridf s. ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurTato variata corallia truiico 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte. Dew pelagi, et piiigui conohylia aucco." 



iV. Parfhenii Giannettasi, Eel. 1 . 



No. 43. JULY li)21. 



I. — Notes on some Noctuidse in the Joicey Collection, with 

 Descriptions of new Species. By Miss A. K. Prout, 

 F.E.S. 



[Plates I.-VIL] 



IXTRODLXTORY NoTE. 



In publishing the following notes, I wish gratefully to 

 acknowledge my deep indebtedness to Mr. J. J. Joicey for 

 the opportunities of study he has so kindly afforded me by 

 entrusting to me the responsible task of working out his fine 

 and rapidly-increasing collection of the Noctuidte of the 

 world. The accompanying paper is the outcome of my 

 studies of the Joicey Collection, and the types will in all 

 cases be found there, unless otherwise specitied. 



I wish, further, to acknowledge gratefully my indebtedness 

 to Sir George F. Hampson for help and advice given me in 

 my studies at the British Museum, and especially so for 

 the invaluable service he has rendered to all students of the 

 Noctuidse by his standard work on the family, which has 

 done so much to render the working out of this large aud 



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