32 NOCTUIDiE. 



brownish grey, the dorsal crests blackish tipped with white, Foro 

 wing whitish suffused with fuscous and pale brown ; subbasal line 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold, with a slight black streak 

 beyond its extremity ; antcmedial line waved ; claviform well- 

 developed, detined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black, the former round with pale annulus, the latter large, filled 

 in with fuscous ; postmcdial lino dentate and produced to white 

 points on the veins which are streaked with black beyond it, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 white, dentate, with slight dentate dark marks before it at middle; 

 u terminal series of white points and small black lunules. Hind 

 wing white ; the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discuidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Ceylon, Putlam (J. Pole), 2 c? type. Exjy. 30 millim. 



1163. Scotogramma sodae. 



Hadcna sodcs, Embr. Ann. Sci. Obs. 1829, p. 250, pi. 6. f. 7 ; Geyer, Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 861 ; Dup. L6p. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 274, pi. 25. f. 4 ; 

 Herr.-Schiiff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 60, 66-7 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 158. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown ; tegulje with 

 black lines at middle and tips ; patagia edged with black above ; 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown or fuscous. Fore wing grey, slightly irrorated with fuscous 

 and often tinged with rufous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; claviform small or moderate, 

 fuscous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, 

 the former smaU, round, with fuscous centre, the latter filled in 

 with fuscous except above ; a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 dentate and produced to black and white streaks on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner 

 side by a fuscous patch at costa and dentate marks at middle, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, some fuscous suffusion 

 beyond it except at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia brownish intersected with fuscous. Hind wing grey suffused 

 with fuscous ; the terminal area fuscous with a pale patch on 

 termen at submedian fold ; cilia whitish or ochreous ; the under- 

 side whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, 

 a discoidal spot, indistinct curved postmedial line, and some lunules 

 on termen. 



Hah. S. Franci;, Leech & Zeller Colls. ; Spain ; Italy ; Greece ; 

 Algeria ; ? Armenia ; ? W. Turkestan, Turcomania. Ex^. 32- 

 36 millim. 



