Some apparently new Species and Forms of Noctuidae 209 



Ab. 1, nigribasis ab. nov., like the type, but with the base of 

 fore wing blacker ( $ and ?). Some S S and 2 2 are intermediate 

 between this and the type. 



Ab. 2, nigripuncta ab. nov., like the type, but with a large round 

 black spot in base of fold ( $ and 2 ). 



Ab. 3, bifurca ab. nov., proximal half of fore wing suffused with 

 violet-grey, except an ochreous patch behind costa, and with a forked 

 black line in cell ( 3~ and 2 ). 



Ab. 4, ochrifascia ab. nov., proximal half of fore wing ochreous 

 white, with the exception of costa, hindmargin and a little violet 

 suffusion at medial line ( 3 and 2 ) . 



Ab. 5, nigristigma ab. nov., similar, but with black spot as in ab. 

 2 (one «?). 



Ab. 6, albifascia ab. nov., proximal half of fore wing with a 

 large bluish-white patch, leaving narrow violet-grey areas at base, 

 hindmargin and middle of costa ( $ and 2 ) . 



Ab. 7, timesioides ab. nov., fore wing with blue-back suffusion, 

 almost exactly as in timesia Swinh. (three 2 2 ). The shape of wings 

 and breadth of border of hind wing make it practically certain that 

 these specimens belong here. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, forty-two $ $ , 

 forty-one ? 2 . 



The 2 of this species matches perfectly with a single 2 from 

 Amboina in coll. Brit. Mus., which Hampson described as ab. 7 of 

 sig?iifera Wlkr., but it is almost certainly quite distinct from that 

 species, the shape of both fore and hind wing being different (as 

 already stated above), the tone of fore wing being, as a rule, more 

 violet in hampsoni (less reddish on proximal half, less grey on distal 

 half), and the various aberrations not agreeing well with any forms of 

 signifera known to me. As the species does not appear to have pre- 

 viously been named, I have ventured to describe it here as new. 



18. Stictoptera griseata Hmpsn. superans subsp. nov. 



$ 2 , 37 — 44 mm. 



Differs from the type form in the distinctly larger average' size 

 (<? and 2 from Sarawak, in coll. Joicey, are scarcely 35 mm., all but 

 one of the Ceram $ $ and one or two 2 2 are over 40 mm.), in the 

 slightly more elongate $ fore wing, and in the whiter ground-colour 

 and deeper black-brown markings, giving the insect a more contrasted 



