442 Some apparently new Noctiiidae from Sumatra, etc. 



Fore wing coloured nearly as in S. lucilla Butl. {Trans. Ent. Soc, 

 1881, p. 206 [Darjeeling]), but with more dark shading on the distal 

 half of wing towards hindmargin. Basal pale shade and white spot 

 in fold more sharply-marked than in lucilla ; antemedial line strongly 

 excurved and slightly waved, from two-ninths costa to two-sevenths 

 hindmargin ; a black outlined white orbicular spot ; reniform pale, 

 irregular, sharply-defined against the blackish proximal part of wing, 

 very ill-defined on distal side ; a pale, sharply-defined medial line from 

 reniform to hindmargin, incurved at middle to near antemedial line ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, from a black bar at costa and with 

 a diffused dark costal patch distally to it, strongly excurved and dentate 

 round cell, with sharp angles on R 1 , R 3 , and M', retracted to edge of 

 pale medial band at M 2 ; a broad, strongly waved pale band from M 2 

 to hindmargin distally to postmedial line ; terminal area nearly as in 

 lucilla, but the subterminal line with more distinct proximal pale 

 shading. 



Hind wing darker than in lucilla, with the medial pale shade much 

 slighter, scarcely denned except near costa ; rather broader and more 

 rounded — less produced at tornus — than in lucilla. 



Underside with the markings nearly as in lucilla but with the 

 medial line of hind wing rather more angled outward at M 2 — further 

 removed from the two discal spots (which are a little larger than in 

 lucilla) ; the general tone darker, more irrorated with black than in 

 that species. 



Dutch New Guinea : Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, Weyland 

 Mountains, 6,000 feet, December, 1920, to January, 1921, $ holotype 

 only. 



In the same antennal section as S. lucilla, but very distinct in the 

 palpus and in markings of fore wing ; differs also in shape of hind 

 wing and in the somewhat more rounded termen of fore wing. 



17. Belciana kala nov. (pi. XV, fig. 6). 

 $ , ? , 45 — 50 mm. 



Head and thorax light-green ; antennal shaft, palpus, a band on 

 tegulae and a tuft (or crest) behind tegulae brown ; abdomen greyish- 

 yellow, the dorsum with some brown hair and a series of deep chocolate- 

 brown crests, the anal tuft green and brown ; patagia and legs greyish, 

 yellow, the fore and mid-tibia and tarsus outwardly banded with green 

 and brown, 



