Four apparently New Noctuidae 191 



angled outwards below vein 4, then incurved ; a series of black points 

 before termen and a waved black terminal line. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with purplish red-brown and irrorated with black ; an oblique 

 blackish medial line ; traces of a waved postmedial line ; subterminal 

 line pale, waved, denned on inner side by rufous and black marks ; 

 a series of black points before termen and black terminal line. Under- 

 side greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with black ; both 

 wings with black discoidal spot and crenulate postmedial line ; fore 

 wing with slight sinuous subterminal shade ; hind wing with crenulate 

 black line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings much less distinct, the 

 reniform filled in with pale red-brown. 



Habitat. — British New Guinea: Ekeikei (Pratt), one S type. 

 German New Guinea : Eitape one $ , two 2 2 . D'Entrecasteaux 

 Islands ; Ferguson Island (Meek), three 3 $ . Louisiade Islands : 

 St. Aignan Island (Meek), two 3 $ . Queensland : Townsville (Lyell), 

 one S. Ex. 50 Mill. 



Genus Platyja Hbn. Verz., p. 268 (1818), Hampson gives type 



unminea Cr. 



Platyja cyanocraspis nov. sp. 



Fore wing with the apex slightly produced and not falcate, mid legs 

 of $ with tuft of long hair from femoro-tibial joint ; the hind tarsi 

 not fringed with long hair above. 



3' . Head, thorax and abdomen deep chocolate-brown, the last 

 dorsally with a slight greyish tinge ; tibiae irrorated with white, the 

 mid-tibiae with large tuft of yellow hair below, the tarsi ringed with 

 white. Fore wing deep chocolate-brown ; a slight streak of white 

 scales below basal half of costa ; antemedial line indistinct, brown 

 faintly defined on inner side by blue-grey, oblique to median nervure, 

 then excurved ; a chocolate-brown annulus in middle of cell ; an oblique 

 fulvous yellow bar beyond end of cell, its upper part rather elliptical 

 and with some red-brown in centre ; postmedial line brown with black- 

 brown points at the veins and defined on outer side by blue-grey, 

 slightly waved, oblique and with some rufous suffusion before it to discal 

 fold, then rather inwardly oblique and below vein 3 forming a sinus 

 to below submedian fold, filled in with rufous below vein 2, then 

 retracted upwards and inwards to median nervure before end of cell 

 and oblique and sinuous to inner margin ; a narrow bluish-white 



