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Addenda to the Subfamily Noetuinae. By W. Warren. 



line slender, blackish, outcurved ; median line curved, oblique below : outer line excurved above, incurved 

 below middle, edged outwardly with white; the space between them filled in with fuscous; reniform stigma 

 consisting of two black superimposed spots edged with white; subterminal line preceded on costa by a sub- 

 quadrate black blotch; black terminal spots; hindwing with two median lines and a whitish outer line. The 

 type of pusiUa from Japan, of maculifera from Amurland. 



123. Genus: >aar<la Walk. 



Tongue slight: frons with a tuft of hair; palpi porrect, the second segment heavily fringed above 

 and below, the third typically short; Antennae of ^ variabl?; wings short and broad, thickly scaled, mark- 

 ed by a pale dot in cell and a lunule, generally yellowish, at its end. Type N. ineffectalis Walk. A genus 

 of Eastern and African species, including one Palaearctic. 



maculifera. N. maculifera Stgr. Forewing blackish grey; a small yellowish dot in cell, a long narrow yellow 



lunule at the end; the lines vertical and wavy, dark with paler tint beyond them; hindwing dark grey 

 with three faint lines. Amurland. 



Acidemia to the Subfamily Bfoctuiiiae. 



The following 30 species of Noetuinae, either new or unrecorded, from Japan, mentioned in Wile- 

 man's paper in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 1911, pp. 245 — 269, and unfor- 

 tunately overlooked in the course of preparation of the Subfamily, are here appended under their proper 

 genera. 



11. Genus: Sypiia Guen. 



lucilla. S.lucilla Btlr. (75 i). 9 Forewing with basal and terminal areas deep brown, the median area bluish white 



more or less wholly suffused with pale brownish; between basal patch and outer band of the dark basal third 

 a curved blackish band, followed (in the Japan specimen only) by a bluish white patch on inner margin; 

 edge of the brown basal area projecting slightly outwards in cell and running in basewards on median 

 vein, then oblique and concave outwards; orbicular stigma a white dot in the brow^n basal area; reniform 

 ill-defined of the pale ground colour, sometimes with darker edge; outer line macular, much interrupted, 

 generally shown by two spots above inner margin, and followed by a triangular brown blotch on costa; subter- 

 minal line black, indented on the folds; black and white terminal dots; in the o the median area is dark 

 slate colour, and the outer band of basal area blackish; hindwing luteous grey; the base brown limited 

 by a curved blackish line, followed often by a pale band; a narrow brown outer line, and two diffuse 

 brown subterminal bands coalescing into a blotch at apex ; fringe dark, whitish at apex. An Indian species 

 occurring in Sikkim and Assam; a $ recorded from Japan by Wileman; another in Tring Museum. 



obscurata. S. obscurata Btlr. (75 h). Forewing, like lucilla; with basal and terminal areas black brown, the median 



area paler, wood brown, or ochreous brown, or white tinged with bluish or ochreous, as hi lucilla: the markings 

 resembling those of lucilla from which it is at once distinguished by the edge of the basal third; in lu- 

 cilla this runs inwards along the median vein, in obscurata. it runs outwards, but is, as a rule, much straighter 

 than that of lucilla, being vertical in its lower half instead of outwardly oblique. Occurs in Sikkim, Assam, 

 and Burma, and a pair is recorded by Wileman from Japan. Wileman, following Hampson, sinks both these 

 species to quadrinotaki Walk. ( = replicata Feld.), but they are quite distinct from that species as well as inter se. 



24. Genus: Opliiussa Hbn. 



stigmata. 0. stigmata Wilem. Forewing greyish tinged w-ith violet and dusted with brown; reniform stigma brown; 



the lines brown; inner nearly straight, diffuse towards inner margin; median wavy, also diffuse below middle; 

 outer band expanding towards costa, its outer edge undulated; terminal dark dots; fringe grey; hindwing 

 fuscous brown. Described from a $ from Hakodate, Yesso; nearest to dorsigera Walk. 



