438 Some apparently new Noctuidae from Sumatra, etc. 



nearly to obliterate the yellow shade towards the hindmargin ; the 

 other two 3 3 seem in slightly less fresh condition). 



Underside of fore wing of diversipalpus has the black area a little 

 extended, the patches in and behind cell reduced in size. The hind 

 wing has the whole posterior third blackish except where crossed by the 

 pale band, which is straight-edged, only very slightly tinged with yellow 

 (stronger in one specimen), not forming two orange, lozenge-shaped 

 spots, as in eyndhovi. 



? , 144—156 mm. 



Without the white reniform of the 3 ; hind wing with the yellow 

 band slightly broader. Fore wing beneath with the white patches 

 rather larger than in the 3 ; hind wing with the yellow T shade slightly 

 stronger. 



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

 south Geelvink Bay, 2,000 feet, January-February, 1921, three 3 3 , 

 three ? ? . *. 



Undoubtedly nearest to P. eyndhovi, of which it might almost be 

 regarded as a large race were it not for the structural difference in the 

 palpus. It is quite possible that, on account of this difference, Sir George 

 Hampson might have placed diversipalpus in his genus Xylophylla ; the 

 difference does not, however, appear to me great enough to warrant 

 generic separation. 



12. Dermaleipa joiceyi sp. nov. (pi. XV, fig. 1). 

 3 , 80—90 mm. 



Belongs to Section I of Hampson, but the fore wing is shorter and 

 broader than in D. juno Dalm. (Noctna juno Dahn., "Anal. Entom.," 

 52 [1823] [Hub. Ign.]), with the termen more erect and rather more 

 rounded ; hind wing more rounded — not flattened or excised before 

 anal angle. 



Antenna, abdomen, pectus and legs nearly as in D. juno, but 

 abdomen above with the red shades replaced by yellow, shading 

 gradually into the scarlet of ventral surface ; head and thorax darker, 

 more chocolate or black-brown than in juno ; palpus brighter scarlet. 



Fore wing chocolate-brown, more or less irrorated and shaded 

 with blackish; markings much as in D. juno, except the postmedial 

 line, which is oblique to SC 5 , thence oblique or slightly curved to 

 middle of hindmirgin, sometimes with traces of a diffused, dentate 



