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SOME APPARENTLY NEW NOCTUIDAE FROM 

 SUMATRA, NEW GUINEA, MEFOR AND BURU. 



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



(Plates XIII, XIV and XV.) 



The following species were collected for J. J. Joicey, Esq., by 

 Messrs. C, F. and J. Pratt, during the years 1920 to 1922 ; all types 

 are in coll. Joicey. 



STICTOPTEEINAE. 



1. Stictoptera polysticta sp. nov. (pi. XIII, fig. 1). 

 ? , 43 mm. 



Head and tegulae pale tawny-brown mixed with whitish ; patagia 

 chocolate-brown tipped with pale tawny-brown ; palpus almost white, 

 slightly browner above ; dorsum of abdomen whitish with some brown 

 hair on anal half; body beneath and legs whitish with some brown 

 shading, the fore- and mid-tarsi banded with black. 



Fore wing with the proximal half yellow-brown, the distal half 

 whitish. White costal spots, bordered with deep red-brown, at origin of 

 antemedial, medial and postmedial lines and three or four similar spots 

 between postmedial line and apex ; chocolate-brown patches at costa, in 

 cell, in fold and before hindmargin, suggesting an oblique band from 

 just before middle of costa to near base of hindmargin ; a slightly 

 oblique kidney-shaped reniform of the ground-colour, defined by white 

 spots, except posteriorly ; postmedial line and distal third of wing 

 almost exactly as in S. macromma Snell. 



Hind wing with the dark border very narrow — as in S. variegata 

 Hmpsn., or even narrower. 



Underside of fore wing, costa and termen of hind wing pale yellow- 

 brown, both wings with waved, diffused brownish-grey subterminal 

 band ; fore wing with medial and postmedial dark bars on costa ; hind 

 wing with slight cell-dot. 



Dutch New Guinea : Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, Weyland 

 Mountains, 6,000 feet, November, 1920, to January, 1921, one ? . 



