214 Some apparently new Species and Forms of Noctuidae 



dark shading on anterior third, and by a distally-quadrate pale patch 

 in cell ending in a blackish discal striga ; anterior and posterior thirds 

 of postmedial line white, proximally black-edged, the medial third 

 composed of black-edged white spots in the interspaces, curved out- 

 ward from middle of costa to E 1 at three-quarters of wing, curved 

 inward to M 2 at scarcely two-thirds of wing, thence nearly erect (but 

 slightly bent outward at SM 2 ) to hindmargin ; a slight diffused brown 

 line across costal white patch at two-thirds costa, and three conspicuous 

 black dots on costa towards apex ; veins of marginal area streaked 

 with blackish ; anterior half of subterminal line obsolete, posterior 

 half white, diffused, expanded behind R 3 ; fringe chequered black 

 and white. 



Hind wing white, darkened on veins and (broadly) at termen; some 

 rufous shading on anterior third of fringe. 



Underside of fore wing brown excepting for the pale areas at 

 margins (nearly as above) ; the termen, especially towards apex, flushed 

 with rufous ; the dark chequerings of the fringe rufous. Hind wing 

 with the costa and anterior third of termen irrorated with pale rufous ; 

 the termen scarcely darkened. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, one 2 . 



A very distinct species, difficult to place in the absence of the £ , 

 though certainly having the neuration of this genus. Perhaps related 

 to brunnea Hampsn., but the third joint of the palpus is rather longer 

 (fully as long as the second), more as in breviuscula Wlkr. 



25. Bisoba avola Beth.-Bak. magna subsp. nov. 

 3 ? , 35 — 42 mm. 



Averages rather larger than avola avola. Fore wing predominantly 

 green (of a brighter tone than the green shades of typical avola), with 

 the white area reduced (sometimes almost absent) in both sexes; often 

 strongly blotched with red-brown or blackish about the middle of wing ; 

 postmedial line slightly incurved about R 3 and excurved at fold in $ . 

 Hind wing slightly more tinged with ochreous than in avola avola. 



Underside usually with the terminal dark shading a little less strong 

 (especially on fore wing) than in typical avola. 



? . Ab. ochracea ab. nov. has the whole proximal area of fore wing to 

 postmedial line nearly uniform ochreous-brown, with slight traces of 

 grey antemedial and medial lines, and green reniform. Distal area of 



