ODONTESTRA. 



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obsolete below vein 1 ; subteriniual line white, slightly waved, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in submedian fold, defined 

 on inner side by dentate black marks ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla {Reed, Swinhoe, Harford), 1 d', 2 ^ type; 

 SiKHiM. Exp. 36 millim. 



1422. Odontestra potanini. 



Mamestra pofnnini, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 192 (1895); id. Eom. Mem. ix. 

 p. 137, pi. ix. f. 10(1897). 



Head and thorax irroratcd with grey ; tegulae with black medial 

 line ; patagia edged with black above ; tarsi with pale rings : 

 abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing purple-grey ; the costal area 

 suffused with purplish red except towards base ; the inner margin 

 with ochreous-white fascia from near base to tornus ; subbasal line 

 represented by double striae from costa and a^black patch below the 

 cell crossed by an oblique ochreous striga ; antemedial line double, 

 dentate towards costa, usually filled in with ochreous in submedian 

 interspace, obsolete below vein 1 ; claviform very large, filled in 

 with black ; vein 2 defined by an ochreous-white fascia below or on 

 both sides to just beyond postmedial line; orbicular and reniform 

 with ochreous annuli defined by black, the former very small, 

 round, or oblique elliptical, the latter with ochreous centre and 

 bent inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double, dentate 

 and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, obsolete below vein 1, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa often present ; subterminal line ochreous 

 white, defined on inner side by prominent dentate black marks, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in submedian fold, some 

 red-brown suffusion beyond it, the apex usually ochreous ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia grey, with black lines through 

 them. Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia ])ale, with a brown line near 

 base ; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas thickly 

 irroratcd with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. W. China, Wa-ssu-kow, 2 d" , 1 $ . Chow-pin-sa, 1 6 , 

 Omei-shan, 1 $; Punjab, Simla (Harford), 1 c? , 1 $, Dalhousie, 

 1 c? , Dharmsiila (Hocking), 1 2 • Exj). 44 millim. 



1423. Odontestra submarginalis. 



Heliophobus submarginalis, Wlk. Cliar. Undcecr. Ilet. p. 32 (1809). 

 Neuria wcisa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 344 ; Ilmpsn. Mollis Ind. ii. p. 201. 

 Xeuria auripicta, Butl. III. Het. B. M. vii. p. 53, pi. 127. f. 3 (1889). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brownish ochreous and black ; 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey tinged with fuscous. Fore 

 wing purplish grey irroratcd and suffused with black, some yellow 

 scaling in base of cell and on medial area below the cell ; an 



