FOUR APPARENTLY NEW NOCTUIDAE. 



Described by 

 Sir GEOEGE F. HAMPSON, Bart. 



TYPES IN COLL. BEIT. MUS. 



Published by kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. 



FOEEWOED. 



As these species occur either in the type-form or in a local race 

 in the collections made for J. J. Joicey, Esq., from Ceram (C, F., 

 and J. Pratt) or Africa (T. A. Barns), permission has been kindly 

 given us to publish them from manuscripts which existed at the 

 British Museum. 



Genus Bamra Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 159 (1882), Hampson gives type 



albicola Wlkr. 



Bamra delicata nov. sp. 



? . Head and thorax white, faintly tinged with yellow-green, the 

 thorax irrorated with black-brown ; palpi with black patch at side of 

 first joint, the second and third joints black at base ; antennae black ; 

 pectus and legs white, the tibiae irrorated with blackish, the fore tibiae 

 black in front, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen white, 

 dorsally irrorated with blackish, the crests tinged with green. Fore 

 wing white irrorated with blackish and tinged with yellow-green except 

 on terminal area from costa to antemedian fold, which is tinged with 

 purplish ; a black point at base of costa ; subbasal line black, waved 

 from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, the inner line 

 indistinct, the outer black, forming a small spot at costa, then waved, 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform 

 small, defined by black ; a double waved medial line, indistinct except 



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