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NOCTUIDJE. 



4518. Elydna ochreipuncta. (Tlate CXLI. fig. 15.) 



Caradrina ochreipuncta, Ilmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 263 (189.1). 



Head and thorax dark purplish brown ; palpi with some whitish 

 scales in front and at tips ; antennae with the basal joint white in 

 front ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish brown, the anal 

 tuft rufous. Fore wing dark red-brown suffused with purple ; 

 subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular a black point; reniform indistinct, brown, slightly defined 

 by black, with round ochreous spot on its outer edge with white 

 point above it and two below it ; an indistinct medial line, oblique 

 from costa to discal fold ; postmedial line black, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line formed by some whitish 

 scales denned on inner side by minute black marks, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a slight dark terminal line. Hind wing 

 greyish suffused with reddish brown ; a brown line near base of 

 cilia ; the undersido whitish tinged with brown, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 rather diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. Sikhim (PilcJier), 1 J. Exp. 40-42 miliim. Type t in 

 Coll Rothschild. 



4519. Elydna subpartita. (Plate CXLI. fig. 10.) 



Caradrina mbpartita, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. siii. p. 201 (190C>), J. 

 Caradrina funerea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (1906), §. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown ; palpi black, whitish 

 at tips ; antennae with the shaft whitish above towards base ; pectus 

 and legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen ventrally whitish mixed with red-brown. Fore 

 wing whitish strongly suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the 

 terminal half darker ; subbasal line blackish, excurved below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold ; a blackish point beyond it in 

 cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double towards costa and inner 

 margin, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; orbicular 

 represented by a black point ; reniform very indistinctly defined, 

 with small whitish spot on its outer edge with white point above it 

 and two below it and a white point on inner side below ; a diffused 

 curved dark medial line ; postmedial line black defined on outer 

 side by a pale band, minutely dentate, excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line very indistinct, greyish 

 defined on inner side by black points and with more prominent spot 

 at discal fold, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points : cilia with a fine pale line at base. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown, the veins and termen 

 red-brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown 



