428 Some apparently new Noctuidae from Sumatra, etc. 



Apparently nearest to S. macromma Snell (Tijd. v. Ent., xxiii, 87, 

 pi. vi, t. 8 [1880] [Celebes]), with which it agrees exactly in shape; 

 but as the forms of macromma from Khasis and the Moluccas seem to 

 be identical it is hardly probable that polysticta is actually a race of 

 macromma. 



2. Stictoptera bakeri sp. nov. (Warr. MSS.) (pi. XII [, fig. 2). 

 S , 39—42 mm. 



Head speckled with black and white ; palpus white beneath, black- 

 ish-brown above, with segment 3 more than three-quarters length 

 of segment 2 ; tegulae whitish, banded with brown-orange, red-brown 

 and pale violet-grey and tipped with red-brown ; thorax with some 

 whitish scales at middle, surrounded by orange-brown ones ; patagia 

 and dorsum of abdomen purplish-black ; abdomen beneath, pectus 

 and legs speckled with black and white, the legs banded with black 

 and ringed with white on joints of tarsi. 



Fore wing with proximal area to the antemedial line purplish-black, 

 the distal area violet-grey more or less suffused with yellow-brown ; a 

 tinge of yellow-brown shading at base. Lines and reniform-mark 

 nearly as in S. swinhoei Beth.-Bkr. (Nov. Zool., xv, 199 [1908] Brit). 

 New Guinea), but antemedial line bent inward from behind M, post- 

 medial straight (not bent outward) from fold to hindmargin. 



Hind wing very broadly clouded with fuscous, the hyaline area 

 being reduced to a bar behind (and sometimes immediately before) 

 M, scarcely reaching beyond end of cell. 



Underside of fore wing blackish-brown with three or four white 

 spots on distal half of costa and a waved postmedial line (as above). 

 Hind wing nearly as above, but with black discal striga, slight, ex- 

 curved medial and strong waved and excurved postmedial lines. 



Dutch New Guinea : Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, Weyland 

 Mountains, 6,000 feet, November, 1920 to January, 1921, two 3~ $ . 

 Also a $ in coll. Joicey from Angi Lakes, 6,000 feet (A., C. and F. 

 Pratt), March, 1914. 



Nearest to S. swinhoei Beth.-Bkr. with which it seems to have 

 been confused, but undoubtedly a distinct species. Specimens in coll. 

 Tring Mus. are labelled bakeri Warr., but this appears to be only a 

 MS. name. 



