228 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



SOME NEW PALAEARCTIC NOCTVIBAE IN THE 



THING MUSEUM.* 



By the late W. WARREN, M.A. 



1. Oederemia marmorata spec nov. 



Forewing of S bluish white in basal area, along costa to outer line, and in 

 the three stigmata; costa marked with black spots at origin of lines; a black spot 

 at base of costa ; a snbbasal black costal striga, and two near base of snbmedian 

 interval ; inner line black, double ; the inner arm broken up into a small blotch on 

 costa, a spot above median vein, and a fine line angled outwards on submedian 

 fold and inwards on vein 1 ; the outer arm irregularly dentate ; claviform stigma 

 a white lunule, touching the lower tooth of inner line; orbicular round, confluent 

 with a long oval lying below median vein ; reniform a large lunule ; all three 

 stigmata outlined in black ; the median area round them suffused with pale olive 

 brown ; outer line double, lunulate-dentate, filled up with bluish white, the outer 

 arm obscure, but followed by irregular dark blotches ; terminal area bluish grey, 

 with an indistinct pale subterminal line and a brownish blotch on termen beyond 



cell ; a row of fine black terminal lunules ; fringe white mottled with dark. 



Hindwing pale grey with dark terminal line ; fringe pale slightly mottled with 



dark. ? with all the brown and black shadings intenser ; the long oval white 



blotch beneath the orbicular stigma quadrate along median vein, produced below to 

 an angle touching outer line at vein 2, the claviform also angled and confluent with 

 it ; the terminal area bluer. 



Dorsum whitish in c?, dark grey in ?. 



Kuku Nor, Tibet, June. 



2. Euplexia albiclausa spec. nov. 



Closely resembling E. chrysocklora Hmps., from India, but sufficiently distinct ; 

 the green of the ground-colour is greyer, less yellow ; the reniform stigma is filled 

 in with dark olive instead of pale green and whitish scales ; it is constricted at 

 middle, and edged on both sides with white, whereas in the Indian species the 

 outer edge is not white, and the white inner edge forms an isolated lunule, 

 separated by a narrow deep olive space from the reniform proper ; the terminal 

 area is much powdered with white scales, which at the apex form a blotch ; in other 

 respects it agrees with chrysochlora. 



1 S from Wa-ssu-kow, 5000 ft., taken by a native collector in July 1890, and 

 1 ? from Ta-Chien-lu, 8300 ft., taken by Pratt, July— August 1890. 



3. Cortyta sabulifera spec. nov. 

 Forewing sandy grey, slightly tinged with brownish in basal half; the basal 

 area and costal portion of median area darker grey ; lines very indistinct, double, 

 rilled in with pale ; inner line bluntly angled on submedian fold ; the outer 

 marked with black only beyond cell, and much less indented than in fasciolata, not 

 bent inwards to below the reniform stigma and forming a small outward tooth on 

 vein 2, but gradually incurved and insinuate across sjibrnedian fold, reaching inner 

 margin nearer anal angle, the median space being consequently broader ; reniform 



* See footnote, p. 210. 



