Some appare?itly new Noctuidae from Sumatra, etc. 437 



Underside of both wings ochraceous-brown, with three or four 

 diffused brown lines, the outer postmedial being the best denned. 



? , 88—90 mm. 



Body about as in S. suffumosa {spirama stiff nmosa Gn., " Spec. Gen. 

 Lep.," vii, 195 [1852]). 



Kecalls a fine ? of suffumosa, but is darker, less tinged with 

 greenish, with broader, more diffused black patches distally to the 

 antemedial line and between the two postmedial lines towards hind 

 margin ; head of inverted-comma mark slightly broader and blacker 

 than in suffumosa : postmedial lines curved and waved round cell much 

 as in the $ ; two subterminal lines waved (but not dentate), with 

 proximal black shading broadening to hindmargin. Hind wing with the 

 lines broad, diffused and nearly straight (except two dentate terminal 

 lines) and with a broad pale band distally to the outer postmedial line. 



Underside with the medial line on both wings nearer the cell-spot 

 than in suffumosa, on the hind wing angled at B 2 , then straight to hind- 

 margin and with an additional faint line between medial and postmedial. 



Dutch New Guinea : Nomnagihe, 25 miles south of Wangaar, south 

 Geelwink Bay, 2,000 feet, January-February 1921, one $ , one ? ; Wai 

 Sai Biver, Weyland Mountains, 1,000 feet, June 1920, one ? . 



Should perhaps be regarded as a subspecies, of retorta, but this 

 difficult genus needs further elucidation. 



11. Phyllodes diversipalpus sp. nov. 

 $ , 132—140 mm. 



Differs from P. eyndhovi (Voll. Tijd. v. Ent, ii, 86, pi. vi [1858] 

 [Sumatra]) in the palpus having the scaling on segment 2 rounded 

 (longest at middle), not "very broadly angled with scales in front at 

 extremity," and in segment 3 being longer, gradually dilated from middle, 

 not slender almost to extremity and ending in a rounded knob. 



Fore wing more violet in tone than in eyndhovi, with the markings 

 slightly more oblique — especially the reniform, which is paler, looking 

 much as though laid on with thick white paint, with yellow shading 

 in centre, outlined in burnt sienna, with slight sienna ring on its 

 posterior end. 



Hind wing a little blacker than in eyndhovi, with the yellow band 

 paler, rather less incurved on posterior half of wing and broken by 

 blackish hair on the veins (in the type specimen this hair is so thick as 



