192 Four apparently New Noctuidae 



terminal band except at apex with a red-brown line near its inner 

 edge and a rufous terminal line ; cilia bluish-white with a slight brown 

 line near base, and brown tips. Hind wing deep chocolate-brown ; 

 a faint curved postmedial line with dark points at veins from vein 5 

 to inner margin ; a narrow bluish-white terminal band from apex 

 to vein 1 with a slight brown line on it and a red-brown terminal line ; 

 cilia bluish-white mixed with red-brown. Underside clothed with 

 velvety deep chocolate-brown hair ; fore wing with some blue-white 

 scales below costa beyond middle and oblique blue-white shade from 

 apex. 



Habitat. — Dutch New Guinea : Oetakwa Eiver, Snow Mountains 

 (Meek) one $ type. Ex. 80 Mill. 



Genus Bocula Gn. Spec. Gen. Lep. vii, 295 (1852), Hampson gives 



type caradrinoides Gn. 



Bocula lophoproctis nov. sp. 



Antenna of 3 with fasciculate cilia. 



Patagia of $ very short, with tufts of long hair from below them ; 

 abdomen with the anal tuft very large. 



Fore wing of $ very broad, the inner margin lobed at tornus ; hind 

 wing with the apex arched and the termen truncate, a fringe of 

 downturned silky hair on apical half of terminal area. 



$ . Head and thorax pale rufous, the tegulae with a few dark- 

 brown scales ; antennae dark brown except towards base ; palpi 

 chocolate-brown, whitish at tips ; pectus and legs chocolate-brown ; 

 abdomen chocolate-brown mixed with grey, the anal tuft reddish- 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with dark brown ; a small black-brown spot in the cell near base ; a 

 black discoidal point ; faint traces of an oblique brownish postmedial 

 line; the terminal area chocolate-brown with deep chocolate on its 

 inner edge from apex to vein 2, its inner edge curved inwards below 

 apex, strongly bent inwards at vein 6, incurved to vein 3, then oblique 

 to termen below vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points defined on 

 inner side by ochreous points to below vein 2. Hind wing with the 

 costal half whitish, the rough scaling on apical area ochreous, the 

 inner area suffused with brown. Underside ochreous suffused and 

 irrorated with brown. 



Habitat. — Dutch New Guinea: Fak-fak (Pratt), two $ $ type, 

 Ex. 36-38 Mill 



