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noctuid.e. 



reniform with oehreous annuli and some white scales in lower part, 

 both constricted at middle; medial line red-brown, blackish at 

 costa, oblique to reniform, erect from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double and filled in with oehreous, oblique 

 and sinuous from costa to vein 5, then minutely dentate and 

 produced to white points on the veins ; the postmedial area with 

 quadrate velvety black patch from costa to vein 5 ; subterminal 

 line oehreous defined on inner side by small black spots at middle, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus, 

 a rounded white patch beyond it at apex leaving small brown spots 

 on termen ; cilia dark red-brown with a fine yellow line at base. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia yellow with 

 slight dark spots from apex to vein 2 ; the underside oehreous 

 white irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, 

 a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Bombay (Leith), 1 S ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 tf , 

 1 2 ; Ceylon (Mrs. Lindesay), 4 § type, Trincomali (Yerhunj), 

 1 6 . Exp. 44-50 millim. 



4810. Callyna leuconota. (Plate CXLV. fig. 9.) 



Callyna leuconota, Lower, Tr. R. lSoc. S. Austr. xsvii. p. 35 (1903). 

 Callyna biplagiata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 217 (1906). 



Head and tegulas black-brown ; thorax greyish brown ; tibiae and 

 tarsi with pale bands ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 greyish brown ; an indistinct somewhat curved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold with a black patch from it to the ante- 

 medial line which is angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell 

 then excurved to vein 1 below which it is obsolete, the patch 

 ending in a curved point on the antemedial line below the cell ; 

 orbicular small, round, with fuscous centre and grey annulus, a 

 black point below it in submedian fold ; a medial shade in- 

 distinct and oblique from costa to median nervure, then more 

 prominent and erect ; reniform narrow, with grey annulus ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, oblique and incurved from costa to discal 

 fold, then double and erect, a large black-brown patch on costa 

 from it to subterminal line extending to discal fold ; subterminal 

 line incurved from costa to vein 7, angled inwards in discal fold, 

 excurved at middle and incurved below vein 3, some dentate black 

 marks on its inner edge at middle and a white patch beyond it at 

 apex; a terminal series of slight dark lunules with white points 

 between them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white at tips ; 

 the underside with the basal half greyish, a small discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. jN". Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 1 $ ; Queensland, Bris- 

 bane, type f 2 i n Coll. Lower. Exp. 46 millim. Type t d" 

 biplagiata in Coll. Bethune- Baker. 



