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SOME NEW FORMS OF INDO-AUSTRALIAN 

 NOCTUIDAE. 



By Miss A. E. PROUT, F.E.S. 

 Plate XXII. 



AGROTINAE. 



1. Agrotis pediciliata, sp. nov. (pi. XXII, fig. 6). 

 $ , 34—36 mm. 



Exceedingly like Agrotis owgarra Beth. -Baker {Nov. Zool., xv, 196 

 [1908] [Brit. New Guinea]), sunk by Sir George Hampson to Agrotis 

 rubicilia Moore (Graphiphora rubicilia Moore, P.Z.S., 1867, p. 55 

 [Sikkim]). Appears to agree exactly with oivgarra except in the colour 

 of fore wing — which is ochraceous-brown in two specimens, reddish- 

 brown in the other — in the slightly more distinct markings of fore wing 

 and the presence of some white shading along proximal two-thirds of 

 costa, the slightly less ample hind wing, and especially in the different 

 structure of antenna. In oiogarra the fascicles are virtually sessile, in 

 pediciliata they arise on quite long serrations (at their longest nearly 

 as long as diameter of shaft) , the shaft also bearing a number of shorter 

 sessile hairs. Except for this structural difference pediciliata should 

 almost certainly be regarded as no more than a subspecies of oivgarra. 



Angi Lakes, Arfak Mountains, N. Dutch New Guinea. 6,000 feet. 

 January-February, 1914 (A., C. and F. Pratt), three S 3 . 



ACRONYCTINAE. 



2. Ghecupa equifortis sp. nov. (pi. XXII, fig. 3). 

 S 2 , 49 — 57 mm. 



Vestiture of 3 , abdomen and wings beneath, much as in C. fortissima 

 Moore (P.Z.S., 1867, p. 60, pi. 6, fig. 5 [Sikkim]), but the hair on the 

 costa of hind wing appears thicker than in Indian specimens, extending 

 only to about middle of wing, and the wing itself seems rather more 

 highly arched towards base. ? vestiture much as in fortissima ? . 



