430 Some apparently new Noctuidae from Sumatra, etc. 



cell-spot, medial and postmedial lines (angled at R 1 ) and subterminal 

 shading, especially on the veins. 



Dutch New Guinea : Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, Weyland Moun- 

 tains, 6,000 feet, November, 1920, to January, 1921, $ holotype only. 



4. Bisoba sticticata sp. nov. (Warr. MSS.) (pi. XIII, fig. 4). 

 $ , 36 mm. 



Head and thorax above green with some brown and black scales 

 intermixed, the tegulae and patagia tipped with blackish ; antennal 

 shaft brown, palpus predominantly blackish but segment 2 anteriorly 

 and posteriorly edged with green, segments 1 and 3 pale-brown shaded 

 with black ; abdomen above whitish, shaded with green and black, 

 greener towards anus ; pectus and legs whitish, shaded with pale-brown, 

 green and blackish, the tarsi broadly ringed with black. 



Fore wing white largely suffused with green and tinged in parts 

 with yellowish-brown, the markings dark-brown ; an outwardly oblique 

 subbasal streak from near base of costa to middle of cell, where it 

 widens to an elongate spot, a black basal spot behind M and a diffused 

 dark spot near base of innermargin ; antemedial line sharply defined 

 and strongly waved from one-fourth costa to one-third hindmargin, 

 bent outward and dentate from SC to fold, strongly bent inward from 

 fold to before hindmargin, to which it is angled outward ; a diffused 

 medial streak from costa to just behind SC and a medial spot on M ; 

 reniform oval, dark outlined (the outline posteriorly thickened), with 

 a black spot in centre ; postmedial line fine, strongly waved, broken into 

 spots on the veins from R 2 to SM 2 , and double at hindmargin, from 

 two-fifths costa to three-fifths hindmargin, strongly bent outward 

 behind costa, less strongly so between R 2 and M 2 ; some elongate spots 

 beyond it on veins R 1 to M 2 and a slight one in fold ; a sharply defined 

 and distally white-edged brown subterminal shade, broad from SC 5 to 

 R 1 and from M 2 to SM 2 and forming semitriangular interneural spots 

 between veins R' to M 2 ; a brownish apical spot posteriorly followed by 

 a large black spot behind SC 4 ; a row of white-edged interneural black 

 terminal spots ; fringe whitish tinged with green and chequered with 

 black. 



Hind wing white, with slight cell-spot, band-like dark shading on 

 distal third, pale-edged black terminal spots and chequered fringe. 



Underside of both wings white, tinged with greenish at costa, with 



