372 NOCTTJID^. 



Genus SCOTOSTENA, nov. 



Type, S. liigens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons with 

 rounded prominence with slight raised edges at extremity and minute truncate 

 process from middle, a curved corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennce of female ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 

 prothorax without crests, the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiae smoothly 

 sealed ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent fi'om 

 middle of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 to near middle. 



A. Fore wing fuscous brown , lugens. 



B. Fore wing ochreous brown pinodes. 



5567. Scotostena lugens, n. sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown with a greyish 

 tinge ; palpi, pectus, and legs with whitish mixed, the tarsi ringed 

 with white. Fore wing fuscous brown with a greyish tinge ; 

 subbasal line represented by a faint blackish striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, black defined on inner side by greyish, 



Fig. 115. — Scotostena lugens, 2- !• 



waved, somewhat oblique ; orbicular a whitish or white point 

 defiined by black ; reniform with brown centre and more or less 

 complete whitish or white annulus defined by black, constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line slight, blackish defined on outer side by 

 grey, bent outwards below costa, then very minutely- waved, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line hardly traceable, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia greyish with a slight dark line near base. Hind wing 

 reddish brown, the cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside greyish suffused with brown. 



Hah. Br. jN". Guinea, Port Moresby, 4 $ type. Exjp. 16-20 

 millim. 



*5568. Scotostena plnodes. (Plate CLX. fig. 1.) 

 Tarache pinodes, Turner, P. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. xxxiv. p. 350 (1909). 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi white 

 at base ; pectus and legs whitish irrorated with brown, the tarsi 



