166 NOCTUID.E. 



medial series of short streaks on the veins, and terminal series 

 of points from apes to vein 2. 



Hab. Travancore, Pirmad (fmray), 1 $ ; Burma, Rangoon, 

 1 6 type, N. Chin Hills ( Watson), Id; Br. N. Guinea, Mt. 

 Kebea {Pratt), typef crenulata in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 

 36-40 millim. 



6 1 . Abdomen of male without sublateral tufts of long hair 

 from base. 

 a 2 . Hind wing of male with the costal area on underside 

 clothed with rough downturned scales, with thicker 

 ridge of scales along subcostal nervure. 

 a-K Hind wing of male on underside with ridge of scales 

 on medial part of vein 1, covered by a thick fringe ot 

 hair from inner margin. 

 a 4 . Fore wing with the reniform represented by some 



white points ..... stcllala. 



b 4 . Fore wing with the reniform represented by a slight 



black point gemini. 



4514. Elydna stellata. 



Graphiphor'a stellata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 119 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Inch 



ii. p. 2t>5. 

 Caradrina lophophora, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 299; id. Moths 



Inch iv. p. 512. 

 Caradrina praiti, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 202 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 blackish, whitish at tips and in front ; tegulse tipped with whitish ; 



Fig. 57. — Elydna stellata, $ 



tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with reddish 

 brown ; subbasal line blackish, angled outwards below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold, a white point beyond it in cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, blackish, erect, slightly bent 

 inwards to costa and outwards above inner margin ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform represented by a small white spot with white 

 point above it and usually two below it ; a brown medial line, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved : postmedial 

 line blackish, slightly excurved between veins 7 and 2 and with 

 short black streaks beyond it on the veins followed by an indistinct 

 diffused brown line ; subterminal line rather diffused, brown, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a fine terminal brown 

 line with whitish points at the veins. Hind wing greyish suffused 



