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NOCTUID.E. 



them ; a erenulate blackish terminal line with oehreous points 

 beyond it in the interspaces ; cilia black-brown. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; two slight blackish marks on vein 1 towards its extremity 



Fig. 16. — Hyioditra ethiopica, c5'- t- 



with an oblique whitish bar beyond them ; cilia with a punctiform 

 whitish line at base ; the underside with small whitish discoidal 

 spot and dark postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. 



Hah. GrOLD Coast, Bibianaha (Spiirt-ell), 1 $ ; S. Nicjeria, 

 Ilesha {Ilumfrey), 1 6 type; Uganda, Entebbe {MincTiin), 

 I $ . Exp. 42-46 millim. 



B. {Hi/pwtra.) Mid tibia of male not dilated. 



a. Fore wing with quadrate black-brown patch beyond 



the cell forming a hook on inner side below iiovagiimeana. 



b. Fore wing with lunulate dark patch beyond the cell, 



somelimes obsolete, and without subbasal and ante- 

 medial black bars from costa discolor. 



c. Fore wing with subliasal and antemedial black bars 



from costa, and without dark patch beyond the cell. . noctuoides. 



7831. Hypsetra novaguineana. (Plate CCXXIII. fig. 6.) 



Hyp<Btra nova gum eana, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 262 (1906). 



Head and thorax bright red-brown ; palpi pale at tips ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing bright red-brown 

 with some gTcy irroration on basal and medial parts of costa and 

 on postmedial area ; a quadrate antemedial velvety black patch in 

 submedian interspace defined at sides by yellow lines ; a black 

 point in middle of cell ; a velvety black discoidal patch defined at 

 sides by yellow lines, extending to well below the cell where it 

 forms a hook on inner side ; traces of a dai'k postmedial line, 

 sinuous to vein 4, then incurved, the grey irroration forming slight 

 streaks beyond it on the veins ; an indistinct sinuous dark sub- 



