448 Some apparently new Noctuidae from Sumatra, etc. 



that species ; palpus nearly as in A. bubo Hbn. (Zutr., 633, 634; iv, B 

 [1832] [Java]). 



Head, palpus and thorax shining violet-grey mixed with brown, 

 abdomen above and beneath greyish-brown; pectus and legs predomi- 

 nantly dark-brown with a few violet scales and some paler brown hair. 



Fore wing violet-grey with an oblique pale medial band shaded with 

 pale olive-green. Scheme of pattern much as in A. pratti, but with 

 the subbasal posterior dark patch distally and posteriorly incised, with 

 a reddish-orange shade behind it along hindmargin to beyond middle 

 of wing, the medial pale band showing two distinct waved lines on it 

 (besides one at its distal edge), the postmedial dark patch beyond cell 

 cut into on its proximal side by a pale tooth, much as is bubo and 

 perflciens (Hypaetra perficiens Walk., xiv, 1412 [1858] [South India]) ; 

 a dark erect waved subterminal line ; the medial pale band rather less ' 

 oblique than in pratti, though more oblique than in bubo and perficiens. 



Hind wing much as in pratti. 



Underside grey-brown tinged with silvery-blue (paler than in pratti), 

 both wings with a straight postmedial line, obsolescent on fore wing, 

 better denned on hind wing, with slight thickening in folds ; pale 

 shading on distal half of costa of fore wing and white cell-spot on hind 

 wing as in pratti. 



Dutch New Guinea : Mount Kunupi, Menoo Valley, Weyland 

 Mountains, 6,000 feet, December, 1920 to January, 1921, two $ $ . 



24. Athyrma eupepla sp. nov. (pi. XV, fig. 9). 

 $ , 58 mm. 



Antenna with moderate bipectinations ending in bristles to about 

 three-fourths, the apical fourth with short bristles ; segment 2 of 

 palpus about 3% mm., segment 3 about 2 mm. ; mid and hind tibia 

 clothed with very thick tufts of long hair, covering half first joint of 

 tarsus; neuration and shape of wings much as in A. bubo Hbn., but 

 hind wing more crenulate and rather less flattened between SC 5 and 

 M 2 ; termen of fore wing perhaps a trifle more rounded. 



Antennal shaft, head and thorax purplish-grey ; abdomen, pectus 

 and legs predominantly greyish-brown, the tarsi ringed with pale- 

 ochraceous ; palpus pale-ochraceous on inner side and beneath, purplish- 

 grey on outer side and above. 



Fore wing purplish-grey with an oblique pale medial band, washed 

 anteriorly with pink, posteriorly with green. Black basal dots on 



