330 NOCTOTD^E. 



A. Fore wing with black lunules in centre and on outer edge of 



reniforni robust a. 



B. Fore wing with the reniforni defined by black points. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved at discal fold, indistincta. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line not incurved at discal 



fold ol/vacea. 



4773. Xylostola robusta. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 28.) 



Nonagria robusta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 285 (1904). 



J. Head and thorax red- brown mixed with some dark brown; 

 palpi black-brown ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus and legs 

 dark brown, the hair on fcibise red-brown ; abdomen black-brown, 

 the lateral and anal tufts rufous. Fore wing pale olive-brown 

 tinged with rufous, the terminal area dark brown except at apex ; 

 a diffused black fascia below base of cell ; traces of a diffused 

 oblique blackish antemcdial line ; claviforni represented by a 

 blackish point at its extremity ; orbicular incompletely defined by 

 black and with blackish spot in centre, round ; reniform defined by 

 black points and with small black lunules in centre and on outer 

 edge ; the extremity of median nervure and the veins beyond the 

 cell slightly streaked with whitish ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black 

 points on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line pale, 

 defined on inner side by a dark shade at costa and by black suffusion 

 between veins 7 and 1, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; a 

 fine black terminal line ; cilia rufous with brown lines near base 

 and at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia rufous with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside grey tinged with rufous 

 and thickly irrorated with fuscous especially on costal and terminal 

 areas, a black discoidal lunule and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Sikhim (Knyvett, Dudgeon, Mowis), 3 J ; Assam, Khasis, 

 1 S • Exp. 42-52 milliin. 



4774. Xylostola indistincta. 



Vapartt. indistincta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 163 (1882) ; id. Lep. Ceyl. iii. 

 p. 120, pi. 159. f. 7; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 268. 



Head and thorax pale greyish red-brown, the vertex of head and 

 te°-uke bright rufous ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with fuscous, 

 the tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen greyish suffused 

 with fuscous brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing pale greyish brown tinged with red-brown, 

 especially on postmedial area, and slightly irrorated with black ; a 

 black point at base ; antcmedial line very indistinct, waved ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a faint greyish lunule surrounded by 

 black points ; traces of a curved, waved, medial line ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6, then waved, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; sub- 



