Some apparently neio Noctuidae from Sumatra, etc. 447 



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

 tains, 6,000 feet, November-December, 1920, ^ holotype only. 



Undoubtedly nearest to B. serrata, but seems to differ in too many 

 points to be conceivably only an aberration of that (apparently) very 

 constant species. 



. 22. Serrodes mediopallens sp. nov. (pi. XV, fig. 2). 

 S , 78 mm. 



Antenna and palpus nearly as in 8. campana Gn. (" Spec. Gen. Lep.," 



vii, 252 [1852] [Silhet], but antennal shaft less strongly thickened at 



base, and segment 2 of palpus rather less broadly scaled at middle ; legs 



apparently as in campana (condition not perfect) ; margins (especially of 



•fore wing) less strongly serrate than in campana. 



Head, thorax and abdomen brownish-grey, with pectus a little paler 

 and thorax above darker and more purplish ; anal tuft white. 



Fore wing with base and termen slate-purple ; medial area ochraceous 

 finely irrorated (especially proximally and posteriorly) with pale red- 

 brown but almost without dark irroration ; base of wing marked almost 

 exactly as in campana ; an orbicular black dot ; reniform finely defined 

 by red-brown, with slight brown line in centre, narrow, constricted at 

 middle ; a slight brown mark at origin of postmedial line, which is bent 

 outward behind costa and coloured as in campana, but is strongly and 

 nearly evenly incurved from the areole to hindmargin ; terminal third 

 of wing nearly as in campana, but distal shading to postmedial line 

 stronger (broader beyond cell), terminal shading weaker. 



Hind wing as in campana but with basal woolly hair apparently a 

 trifle thicker. 



Underside of both wings much as in campana. 



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

 Geelvink Bay, 2,000 feet, January-February, 1921, $ holotype only. 



Easily distinguished from other Serrodes species by the strongly 

 contrasted medial area and the curved postmedial line. 



23. Athyrma rhynchophora sp. nov. (pi. XV, fig. 10). 



$ , 47 mm. 



Antenna bipectinate to about five-sixths shaft, the pectinations 

 ending in bristles, as in pratti Beth.-Bak. (Hypaetra pratti Beth.-Bak., 

 Nov. Zool. xiii, 262 [1906] [Brit. New Guinea]), but longer than in 



