190 Four apparently New Noctuidae 



at costa, excurved round the reniform ; postmedial line black, forming 

 a small spot at costa, bent outwards and almost obsolete below costa, 

 then irregularly waved and dentate, from below vein 5 angled inwards 

 to lower angle of cell, then outwardly oblique, an indistinct dentate 

 blackish line beyond it, and a black streak in submedian fold ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, white, slightly defined on outer side by brown 

 and on inner side by black towards costa, waved, angled outwards 

 below veins 7 and 4 ; a waved black terminal line forming points at 

 the interspaces ; cilia intersected with black at the veins. Hind iving 

 pure white, the terminal area suffused with fuscous-black narrowing 

 to tornus and with a slight oblique white bar on it at submedian 

 fold ; a slight waved black terminal line ; cilia white with a blackish 

 line through them and intersected with black at the veins. Underside 

 of fore wing fuscous-black, the inner area and basal half of costal 

 area white. 



Habitat. — S. Nigeria : Old Calabar (Crompton) one $ . Ilesha 

 (Humfrey) three ? ? type. Ex. 40-44 Mill. 



Genus Ericeia Wlkr. xiii, 1089 (1859), Hampson gives type as 



sobria Wlkr. 



Ericeia goniosema nov. sp. 



Fore and mid tarsi of c? with the first joint fringed with hair above, 

 the hind tarsi fringed with hair above to near extremity. 



$ . Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown, the thorax 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; abdomen dark-brown, irrorated with 

 a few black scales, the base grey tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 grey tinged with purple-brown, and irrorated with a few black scales ; 

 traces of a waved black subbasal line from costa to vein 1, with a small 

 black spot on it below costa ; antemedial line black, interrupted, with 

 black spots on it at costa and vein 1, incurved in cell and excurved 

 below the cell ; reniform bright red-brown more or less suffused with 

 black-brown, oblique and strongly produced at lower extremity ; a 

 black spot above it on costa ; postmedial line treble, black, waved, 

 oblique to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish denned 

 on each side by purplish chocolate-brown, on inner side broadly diffused 

 and forming somewhat wedge-shaped marks at discal and submedian 

 folds, the line slightly angled outwards then inwards below the costa, 



