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running obliquely to apex and the terminal nrca fuscous ; the 

 mediau nervure and base of vein 1 streaked with ochrcous ; 

 veins 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 on terminal area blackish defined by ochreous 

 streaks ; a black streak below base of cell and an oblique streak 

 above inner mai'gin near base; claviform with ochreous annulus 

 defined by black and with a black patch below its inner side ; 

 orbicular and reniforra with ochreous or blackish centres and 

 whitish annuli define 1 by black, the former oblique elliptical, and 

 produced along median nervure to become more or less strnngly 

 confluent with the narrow reniform ; an irregular oblique ochreous 

 band from apex to inner margin beyond middle intersected by the 

 streaks on the veins ; the subterminal line represented by a series 

 of ochreous points on small dentate black marks in the interspaces ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia ochreous, with two 

 brown lines through them. Hind wing whitish, the veins, inner 

 area, and terminal half suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous white, 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous except on disk, a small discoidal lunule. 



2 . Head and fore wing more uniformly suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. CuiLi (Edmonds), 2 cT , 1 5 type. EA^p. 32-34 millim. 



Sect. II. Anteniif? of inale cilialecl. 



A. Fore wing with terminal whitish bnnd scripfa. 



B. Fore wing without terminal wiiite band calligrapta. 



*1814. Strigania scripta. 



Mamestra scripfa, Mssn. Stlibel's Eeise, p. 141, pi. vi. f. 14 (1890). 



(5 . Head and thorax pale ochreous with some fuscous and brown 

 hair mixed ; patagia with white streak and some black scales near 

 edges ; abdomen pale ochreous, tinged with brown towards ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing pale ochreous, the interspaces mostly suffused 

 with brown ; subbasal line represented by patches of black scales 

 below costa and cell, the latter crossed by an oblique whitish striga ; 

 antemedial line represented b}' two patches of blackish scales below 

 costa and by a whitish line from cell to inner margin, strongly 

 angled on vein 1 and defined by black on outer side in submedian 

 interspace and on inner side below vein 1 ; claviform incompletely 

 defined by black and with oblique whitish fascia above and beyond 

 it; orbicular and reniform whitish with brown centres open above 

 and below, defined by a V-shaped black mark between them and an 

 inverted V before orbicular, connected by a whitisli streak on 

 median nervure, continued on veins 3, 4 to subterminal line ; post- 

 medial line minutely waved, black defined by a whitish band on 

 outer side connected with apex by an oblique whitish fascia, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6 and from vein 4 to inner margin ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of black wedge-shaped marks with 

 whitish lunules on them ; a terminal whitish band ; cilia whitish, 

 ochreous at base. Hin 1 wi ng ochreous white, thp veins and terminal 



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