516 NOCTUILl-E. 



towards costa and inner margin, a slight white streak before it on 

 vein 1 ; reniform defined by white on outer side and below, a white 

 streak on vein 6 from its extremity to termen ; postmedial line 

 white, oblique from costa to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, 

 below vein 4 bent inwards to lower edge of reniform, then obliquely 

 excurved to inuer margin, some wbite points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line represented by two obliquely placed white streaks 

 below apex, then oblique strise below veins 7 and 6, then slight, 

 dark, excurved at middle, and with wedge-shaped white spot beyond 

 it in submedian fold, almost met by a short streak from postmedial 

 line ; a series of white striae just before termen ; cilia with a fine 

 pale line at base and some white at apex. Hind wing greyish 

 tinged with red-brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; the underside 

 white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a brown 

 discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial and subterminal lines; 

 the rough scales on both wings yellowish. 



Hub. Assam, Khasis, 2 5 type ; Bombay, Kanara, Karwar (Bell), 

 1 d" , 1 2 I Madras, Nilgiris, type fspotha in Mus. Oxon. ; Ceylon, 

 Maskeliya (de Mowbray), 1 <$ . Exp. 24-30 millim. 



Si CT. II. Antenna?, Tore legs, and wings of male normal. 



3457 b. Pcecilogramma picata. 



Pcecilogramma picatum, Butl. P. Z.S. 1892, p. 126, pi. vi. f. 4. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white, the pro- 

 thoracic crest with some rufous ; tibiae and tarsi banded brown and 



Fig. 245. — Pcecilogramma picata, $ . §. 



white ; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing dark 

 brown with black streaks in and below cell and in interspaces of 

 terminal area ; subbasal line yellowish white, dilated into a spot at 

 costa, then sinuous to base of inner margin, connected by an 

 oblique white mark in cell with the yellowish white antemedial 

 band which forms a costal patch on costal area, then oblique to 

 inner margin, with a white striga before it from costa, and some 

 brown striae on it representing the antemedial line, the inner margin 

 with white fascia irrorated with brown from it to termen ; reniform 

 a small figure-of-eight shaped white mark with black spot in its 

 lower part ; postmedial line white defined on inner side by black, 

 inwardly oblique from costa, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, bent inwards at vein 3 to lower edge of 



