214 NOCTUID^. 



black filled in with white and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with white, angled outwards below costa and bent 

 inwards to inner margin ; claviform large, defined by black ;' 

 orbicular and renitbrm with brown centres and ])ure white annuli 

 defined by black,^the former irregularly oblique elliptical, the latter 

 constricted at middle and with its lower edge excised ; an indistinct 

 medial line angled on median nervure ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique and slightly sinuous, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by diffused 

 dentate black marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 brown with blackish line at base. Hind wing brown, pale at base ; 

 cilia white at tips ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Eah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, Amdo, 1 J , 1 $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



1431. Hadena uncifera. (Plate LXXXIY. fig. 12.) 

 Prodenia uncifera, Mssn. Stiibel's Reise, p. 140, pi. vi. f. 11 (1890). 



Head and thorax mixed grey, ochreous, rufous, and black ; tarsi 

 blackish with ochreous rings; abdomen fuscous, sufi'used with 

 purplish red especially towards extremity. Fore wing dark 

 purplish grey largely suffused with fuscous, the terminal area pale 

 reddish-grey, the medial area suffused with red-brown except 

 towards costa and inner margin ; a double, waved, black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black 

 filled in with grey, angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 1, 

 then excurved and retracted to inner margin; claviform broad, 

 black defined by a prominent dentate yellowish-white mark ; 

 orbicular and reniform rufous with yellowish annuli defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, the latter angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; some rufous and grey streaks on the 

 veins beyond lower angle of cell ; postmedial line double, black 

 filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, excurved and 

 lunulate to vein 4, then oblique, some yellowish points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line formed of yellowish points, defined on 

 inner side )jy dentate black marks and slightly defined on outer 

 side by black before the pale terminal area, somewhat excurved 

 from below costa to below vein 3 and bent outwards to tornus ; a 

 series of blackish points just before termen ; cilia grey with a 

 brown line at base. Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal 

 areas suffused with brown ; cilia white with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside with the marginal areas irrorated with fuscous 

 and the costal area suffused with brown, a short black streak in 

 cell and black discoidal spot, a sinuous postmedial line. 



Huh. Colombia, 1 5 , Chiles ; Eccadok, Pichincha, Mojanda. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



