268 NOCTUID^. 



■with black, a discoidal point, postmedial series of slight streaks on 

 the veins and terminal series of points. 



Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 c? , Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 

 1 d, 1 2; Punjab, Kulu, Siiltanpur (G. Yomuj), IS, I ?, 

 Simla {Harford), ] $, Dharmsala (Hockinrj), 2 S , 5$; Sikhim ; 

 Cetlon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 $ , Exp. 40-48 millim. 



1508. Chabuata fraterna. 



Aletia fraterna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1S8S, p. 410 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. 

 p. 50, pi. 126. f. y ; Hmpsn. Mollis Ind. ii. p. 276. 



S ' Head and thorax purplish red, the hairs slightly tipped with 

 grey ; abdomen purplish red. Fore wing purplish red ; the costal 

 edge whitish ; the veins finely streaked with whitish ; no distinct 

 white point at lower angle of cell ; stigmata and postmedial series 

 of points absent. Hind wing pale purplish red slightly tinged 

 with fuscous except towards inner margin ; cilia white at tips. 

 Underside of both wings purplish red irrorated with fuscous, a 

 discoidal spot and postmedial spot on costa of fore wing. 



Hub. Punjab, Dharmsiila (Hocl-ing), 1 S type. Exp. 46 millim. 



*1509. Chabuata inanis. 



Leucania inanis, Oberth. !6t. Ent. v. p. 70, pi. iii. f. 4 (1880) ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 193. 



$ , Head and thorax grey, tinged with purplish red and mixed 

 with brown ; abdomen greyish tinged with purplish brown. Fore 

 wing greyish, suffused with purplish red and irrorated with dark 

 brown ; the veins streaked with white ; a dark antemedial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, then erect and slightly 

 sinuous ; a whitish mark on lower discocellulars : postmedial line 

 dark, very minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line only defined by the area 

 beyond it being very slightly darker, arising from apex, incurved 

 at discal and submedian folds, excurved at middle; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing pale uniformly suffused with 

 brown ; cilia pale tinged with purplish pink ; the underside grey 

 tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 spot and some points on termen. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Askold I. ; Japan, Nikko in Coll. 

 Piingeler. Exp. 40 millim. 



1510. Chabuata rufipennis. 



Mythimna rufipennis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p, 79 (1878); id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 21, pi. 28. f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 194. 

 Leucania semicircida, Gras. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 349. 



Head and thorax purplish red mixed with grey ; abdomen pale 

 rufous, tinged with purplish red towards extremity and on ventral 

 surface. Fore wing pale rufous, thickly striated with purplish red 



