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NOCTUID.E. 



antenna} blackish ; palpi in front towards base white ; pectus 

 greyish ; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral surface whitish 

 except at extremity. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with 

 glossy leaden grey ; a large chocolate-red patch from costa at 

 middle to near apex and extending to below vein 4, with rather 

 sinuous white edges and rounded below ; a sub basal black point in 

 cell; two indistinct oblique sinuous dark antemedial lines, wide 

 apart below the cell; postmedial line indistinct, dark, curving 



Fig. 51. — Elydna plagiata, $. \. 



round the outer edge of the chocolate patch and minutely waved 

 from its lower edge to inner margin ; a series of black points just 

 before termen. Hind wing dark brown with a cupreous red gloss ; 

 a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside greyish suffused 

 with brown, a black discoidal lunule, indistiuct curved postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of black points. 



llab. Punjab {James), 1 S ; Bombay, Kanara, Karwar (Bell), 

 1 $ ; Ceylon, Kandy (Green), U,l$, Matale (Pole), 1 $ ; 

 Burma, Moulmein (Cleric), 1 S type, Rangoon, 1 J type costi- 

 pannosa, Bhamo, 1 d • Exp. 30 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male minutely serrate and strongly fasciculate. 



4507. Elydna incrassata. 



Dyrzela incrassata, Wlk. xv. 1759 (1858). 

 Byrzela parattela, Wlk. xxxiii. 787 (1865). 



Palpi, frons, and antennae black-brown ; vertex of head and 

 basal half of teguke orange-fulvous ; tips of tegulse and thorax 

 red-brown ; pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish brown. Pore wing 



>V'l &- 



Fig. 52. — Elydna incrassata, <$. {. 



red-brown with a greyish gloss, the costal edge orange fulvous to 

 beyond middle; a black point in base of cell ; antemedial line red- 

 brown, oblique, waved ; medial line red-brown, waved, oblique 



