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NOCTUID^. 



black poiut on costa before apex and a terminal series. Hind wing 

 •ochreous white, with traces of a subterminal dark baud. 



Fig. 14. — Eafihuva coiifcrtisshna, (^ . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



Hah. S. India, Gooty (Camjyhell), 1 5, Coimbatore {WalJiouse), 

 3 c? type. Kvj^. 26-28 millim. 



38. Raghuva perstriata, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 14.) 



cJ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 ■ochreous. Fore wing ochreous ; an obscure diffused fuscous fascia 

 along median nervure and above vein 4 to termen ; antemedial 

 black points on median nervure and vein 1 ; a curved postmedial 

 series of black points on the veins ; a minute black streak on costa 

 before apex and a terminal series of points. Hind wing ochreous. 

 Jfah. N.W. HiMALATAS, Kangra, 1 J type. Ex2). 30 millim. 



Genus NEOCLEPTRIA, nov. 



Type, X. punctifera. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi obliquely porreet to just beyond iVons and 

 fringed with bair below ; irons witli rounded prominence with corneous ridge 

 across it ; eyes large, naked ; antenuge of male ciliated ; bead and thorax clothed 

 with scales and hair, without crests ; fore tibia; with slender curved claw on 

 inner side and shorter claw on outer; mid and hind tibia; spined ; abdomen 

 witbout crests. Fore wing witb veins 3 and .5 from close to angle of cell; (5 

 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 •of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle. 



39. Neocleptria punctifera. 



Heliothis spinosce, Wlk. xi. 686 (1857), nee Guen. 



Heliothls punctifera, Wlk. xi. (i91 (1857). 



Heliothis lcucat7iia, 3Ieyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 368. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black and often tinged with 

 rufous ; abdomen whitish dorsally, strongly irrorated with black 

 especially in female. Fore wing grey, strongly irrorated with black 

 and more or less strongly suffused with rufous ; a waved subbasal line 

 from costa to submediau fold; the antemedial line angled outwards 

 below costa and cell and bent outwards above inner margin, with a 

 less distinct line on its inner edge ; claviform often represented by 

 a diffused blackish patch ; orbicular and reniform brown-edged and 

 with fuscous centres, the former round, the latter with two black 

 points above it on costa ; an indistinct waved medial line from cell 



