344 Sir G. F. Hampson on new XLT. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Syntomiclje, Arctiadse, Agaristidae, and Noctuidse. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S. The following paper forms a fifth supplement to the first six volumes of the * Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalsense in the British Museum/ the former papers having appeared in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. viii. pp. 165-186 (1901), vol. xi. pp. 337-351 (1903), vol. xv. pp. 425-453 (1905), and voh xix. pp. 221-257 (1907). The numhers before the species indicate their position in the classification adopted iu those volumes. The types are in the British Museum. SyntomidsB. 232 a. Hyalcethea hivitreaia, sp. n. cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; palpi (except at tips), frons, shoulders, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen orange. Fore wing brown, with a purplish tinge; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell and elongate triangular patch below the cell from near base to near tornus. Hind wing brown, the base yellow, the lobe on inner margin yellow. Hub. Tenimbeb, Larat, 2 (J type. Exp. 22 mm. 287 b. Metarctia phceoptera, sp. n, ? . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; antennae with some pink hair on basal joint in front ; prothorax with a slight pink spot ; pectus with lateral pinkish streaks ; coxse and femora with some pinkish hair ; abdomen dark brown, with pinkish segmental rings. Fore wing uniform fuscous brown, the cilia greyish at tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the disk somewhat semihyaline ; cilia gi'eyish at tips. Hab. Upper Congo (IFollaston), 1 ? type. Eap. Siimm. 287 c. Metarctia pumila, sp. n. (J. Head aud thorax dark reddish brown; abdomen yellowish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing uniform red-brown with a greyish tinge. Hind wing white suffused with ochreous. ? . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; sides of pectus and coxae with some yellow ; abdomen yellowish suffused with fuscous brown forming obscure bands, the ventral surface
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