56 NOCTUID^. 



fold aud bent inwards helow vein 4, the black before it on inner 

 half rather forming streaks ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunnles defined on inner side by slight pale lunnles ; cilia blackish 

 with a slight pale line at base. Hind wing dark brown with a 

 reddish tinge ; cilia whitish tinged with red-brown and with a 

 dark line through them ; the underside dark brown, the costal area 

 red irrorated with white and black, an indistinct dark discoidal 

 spot and diffused curved postmedial line bent inwards to costa. 



Hah. Malacca, Perak, Kinta Valley (liidley), 1 $ type. Kv2). 

 40 millim. 



2792. Magusa oenistis, n. sp. (Plate CIX. fig. 8.) 



2 . Head and tliorax bright rufous mixed with dark red-brown ; 

 palpi ochreous white in front ; tegulse with some white scales 

 before the tips which are reddish ochreous ; patagia with some 

 black scales near upper edges and a white mark on outer edge 

 near base ; pectus white in front and below base of wings ; tarsi 

 black witfi rufois rings ; abdomen red-brown with the crests 

 rufous and greyish, the ventral surface deep rufous. Fore wing 

 pale rufous suffused with red-brown and fuscous, the costal half 

 to middle and a patch on costa beyond postmedial line darker 

 brown, the outer part of medial area and submedian interspace 

 to postmedial line and apex paler rufous ; an oblique sinuous white 

 streak from base of costa to submedian fold before middle with a 

 triangular black mark above its extremity; subbasal line represented 

 by double black striae from costa and cell, the antemedial line by 

 double black stria3 from costa and indistinct double waved line 

 from cell to inner margin ; claviform small, slightly defined by 

 blackish; orbicular small, round, with brown centre and rufous 

 annulus, placed on a triangular black patch extending to reniform 

 which is pale rufous defined by black, the inner side of centre 

 slightly defined by brown, its outer edge indented at middle and 

 with dark streak from it to postmedial line ; medial line represented 

 by a black spot on costa and slight waved line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double filled in with reddish ochreous, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, cxcurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on the dark 

 costal patch and slight black streaks on veins tJ and 4 ; an indistinct 

 pale subterminal line, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black spots on slight pale marks. 

 Hind wing dark red-brown ; cilia greyish brown with a slight 

 dark line through them ; the underside red-brown, the costal area 

 rufous irrorated with brown, a brownish discoidal bar and diffused 

 slightly curved postmedial line. 



Bah. Pk. jS\ Guinea, Ekcikei (Pratt), 1 2 type. Kvjy. 

 44 millim. 



