20 • NOCTUIDJE. 



blackish between it and postmodial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct waved medial 

 line \ postmedial line dentate, indistinctly double, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterrainal line 

 pale, defined on inner side by a series of slight dentate rufous 

 marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the 

 area beyond it dark except at apex ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia intersected with rufous. Hind wing white or 

 ochreous white, the veins and terminal area more or less tinged 

 with fuscous ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated Avith fuscous, a postmedial series of slight dark streaks on 

 the veins. 



Ilab. Mashonaland, Salisbury {MarsliaU), 1 c? ; Pukjab, Kulu, 

 Sultaiipore {G. Yoiimj), 2 (^ , 2 j , Dharmsala {Hoclciiuj), 1 5, 

 Jubbulpore, 2 5 , Maupuri, 1 $ , type latifasciata ; Bombay, Poona 

 (Siuinhoe), 1 5 , type viriata ; Canara ( Ward), 1 d" type ; Nilgiris 

 {Hampson), 4 c? ', Burma, Mandalay (Bmghani), 1 j » Thayetmyo, 

 (Watson), 1 $ . Kv2y. 34-36 millim. 



1144. Craterestra hoplites. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 29.) 



Mamestra hoplites, Staud. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 160 (1901). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown and black ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulae and patagia edged with black, the 

 former with medial J)lack line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing greyish, almost entirely suffused with 

 pale red-brown ; subbasal line represented by obliciue black striae 

 from costa and cell, interrupting a black streak below base of cell ; 

 an oblique black streak from inner margin before the antemedial 

 line, which is double, very strongly angled inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1, and outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin ; claviform defined by black, very large, and extending 

 to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open 

 above ; the terminal halves of median nervure and vein 1 above 

 and vein 3 on both sides defined by white streaks ; postmedial line 

 double, somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold to the reniform, incurved below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; the veins of terminal area streaked with 

 black ; subterminal line represented by some whitish streaks on 

 each side of veins towards costa, dentate to termen on veins 4, 3, 

 and defined on inner side by dentate black marks below costa and 

 middle ; cilia brown, intersected with white. Hind wing pale 

 suffused with browni, the terminal half fuscous brown with a pale 

 mark above tornus ; the underside brownish white, a discoidal 

 point and waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Russia, Urals ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Tekke, 1 6 , 

 1 2 ■ Exp- 34 millim. 



