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NOCTUID.®. 
placed on a diffused sinuous medial line, a maculate post- 
medial line excurved beyond lower angle of cell, and some 
obscure subterminal marks. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 1 type. Exp. 
44 millim. 
Genus ZALEOPS , nov. 
Type, Z. umbrina, Grote (Pheocyma), Can. Ent. xv. p. 3 
(1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 368 (1893). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 
3rd rather long and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons 
smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the pro- and 
metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae slightly fringed with 
hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 
wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 
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 the cell about one-third 
length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from 
just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Genus COXINA. 
Type. 
Covina, Gnen. Noct. ii. p. 297 (1852) ensipalpis , Guen. 
Coxina plumbeola, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax black-brown with a few white scales, 
the tegulae with some ochreous white at base ; palpi with 
some white on 1st joint and at base of 2nd in front, the 2nd 
and 3rd joints white at tips ; pectus grey ; legs whitish 
irrorated with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; ab- 
domen grey tinged with brown and irrorated with black ; 
the ventral surface whiter. Fore wing black-brown tinged 
with purplish grey, irrorated with black and on costal area 
with some white, some ochreous white at base of inner margin ; 
subbasal line indistinct, double, black, sinuous, from costa 
to submedian fold ; anteraedial line black, waved, with 
a black mark before it at inner margin and two indistinct 
waved dark lines beyond it ; a black point in middle of cell ; 
reniform defined on inner side by black and with white points 
above and below, on outer side by a white bar expanding into 
a spot below ; a sinuous black bar from middle of costa ; 
postmedial line double, black, filled in with white at costa, 
bent outwards below costa, then waved, slightly incurved at 
(fiscal fold and incurved below vein 4, some white points 
beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black defined on inner 
