76 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Noctaid Moths 



COTANDA, Moore. 



Type Cotanda placodoides. 

 Ei'iopiis placodoides, Guonee, Noct. ii. p. i29G. n. 110 b. 

 Java and Nilgiris. Type Coll. B. M. 



Cotanda cetMops. 



Callopistria a'thiops, Butler, Anu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 200 

 (1878) ; III. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 21, pi. xlvi. fig. 4 (1879). 



Japan and Nilgiris. Type Coll. B. M. 



Cotanda diqjliciUnea. 

 Plusia duplicilhiea, Walker, Jouru. Linu. Soc. vii. p. 70. 

 Sarawak. Coll. B. M. 



Cotanda indica^ sp. n. (PI. IX. figs. 8, 8 a, 8 i.) 



Callopistria Yerburii, Butler, Bl, Typ. Lep. Blet. vii. p. 12, ludex 

 (1889). 



Very like Flemipachycera Yerhurii, but differing in struc- 

 ture, in the presence of a pencil of long bristles at base of 

 primaries, and a fringe of long hairs on inner margin near 

 external angle, in its deeper coloration, in the outer margin 

 of the central belt of primaries being much less sinuous, the 

 discoidal markings more sharply defined in white and with 

 a diffused ochreous patch below them ; the vertex of the 

 head whitish at the margins. 



Expanse of wings 29 millim. 



Dharmsala, Canara, and Sarawak. Type Coll. B. M. 



Rhoptrotkichia, Butler. 



Type Rhoptrotrichia recurvata. (PI. IX. figs. 10, 10 a.) 



Callopisti'ia recurvata, Moore, Descr. Lep. lud. Atk, ii. p. 144 (1882) ; 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. GO, pi. cli. fig. 1 (1884). 



Ceylon, Java, Jubbulpore, New Hebrides. Coll. B. M. 



Rhoptrotrichia argyrosticta. 

 Peri(/ea? argyrosticta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 177. 

 Tokio, Type Coll B. M. 



