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48. Leistera pulchristrigata Beth.-Bak. denuda subsp. nov. 



S 2 , 70—80 mm. 



Averages slightly smaller than typical pulchristrigata ; hind wing 

 in both sexes with the medial blue band somewhat broader, especially 

 between R 1 and fold, where the distal side is a little more extended 

 towards termen. In the ? the medial line of the fore wing is whiter 

 than in typical pulchristrigata and generally two or three times as broad, 

 and the conspicuous rings behind the origin of B 3 and M 1 are entirely 

 wanting, the two sexes being alike except for the broader medial band 

 of the $ , and the absence in the 2 of the white-ringed black spot 

 proximally to this band. One 2 -ab. has the medial line pale chocolate, 

 but it retains its extra breadth. 



Manusela, 6,000 feet, October to December, 1919, twenty-nine $ $ , 

 thirty-one 2 2 ; 3,000 feet, October to November, 1919, one <? , one 2 . 



49. Leistera splendens Beth.-Bak. 



This shows an exactly parallel racial variation with pulchristrigata, 

 which seems to confirm my previous impression that pulchristrigata 

 and splendens are forms of the same species. 



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



As the Leistera 2 2 show distinct spines on the mid-tibia, and 

 the $ $ probably also possess them, though entirely concealed by hair, 

 this genus ought to come in Hampson's subfamily Catocalinae ; but 

 Hampson, having apparently overlooked the spines, places the genus 

 in his Noctuinae and in this paper I have given it the position which 

 it occupies in coll. Brit. Mus. 



50. Ericeia gonioptila sp. nov. 



3 , 46—50 mm. 



Head, thorax, abdomen and legs greyish-fawn colour, the abdomen 

 paler than the thorax. Hind tarsus clothed with long hair, gradually 

 decreasing in length to the fifth segment. Cell of fore wing beneath 

 clothed with long down-turned hair. 



Wings greyish-fawn colour ; the reniform and subterminal band pale 

 ochreous-brown ; ante- and postmedial lines blackish, macular. Lines 

 indistinct, apparently nearly as in inangulata Gn., but fore wing always 



