212 NocTriDj:. 



1428. Hadena dissecta. 



Heliophohm dissectus, Wlk. xxxii. 656 (1865); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 22, 



pi. 146. f. 7 ; Hra]isn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 200. 

 Namestra cruc/fer, l-eld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 30 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown irrorated with black ; te2;ulae with 

 black medial line defined by whitish above and with whitish tips ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing golden 

 brown suffused and irrorated with black, the veins streaked with 

 ochreous ; subbasal litie black, defined by ochreous on outer side, 

 excurved from costa to base at vein 1, an oblicjue ochreous striga 

 beyond it across the cell ; antemedial line black on a narrow 

 ochreous band, angled outwards below costa, tlien incurved to above 

 inner margin, where it is angled ; claviform obscurely defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform with ochreous annuli defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, the latter oblique 

 oblong : postmedial line black on a narrow ochreous band, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique to vein 6, where it is joined by an 

 ■oblique ochreous baud from apex, then very oblique to above inner 

 margin, where it is angled inwards; subterminal lino ochreous, 

 interrupted at the veins, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with 

 ochreous line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces 

 of ba^al area whitish, especially in male ; cilia ochreous with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside paler, the costal and ter- 

 minal areas irrorated with brown, the former tinged with rufous, a 

 •dark discoidal point and waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Japan", iS'ikko (Leech), 1 cJ ; AY. China, Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 

 1 2 ; SiKHiM (Lidderdale, MoUer), 1 c5' , 3 $ , type ; Cetlon, 1 c? ; 

 PniLiPPraEs. Eajy. 50-52 millim. 



1429. Hadena reticulata. 



Noctua reticulata, Vill. Linn. Ent. ii. p. 254 (1789) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 159. 

 Noctua calcatrippa. View. Schmett. p. 71 (1790). 

 Noctiia saponaricB, Esp. Sebmett. iv. pi. 198. ff. 3, 4 (1790) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vi. p. 272, pi. 90. f. 2 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 188. 

 Noctua marginoRa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 195 (1803). 

 Noctua typica, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 58 (1827). 

 Mamesfra unicolor, Alph. Rom. Mem. v. p. 147 (1889). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and black ; 

 tarsi blackish with pale bands ; abdomen ochreous thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown. Fore wing dark brown, suffused with violaceous 

 before the antemedial line, beyond the claviform and on postmedial 

 area ; the veins streaked with white except on postmedial area, 

 where they are black ; the subbasal line represented by double 

 oblique black striae filled in with white from costa and cell, a very 

 oblique white striga across the cell just beyond it; the antemedial 

 line double, black filled in with white, angled outwards below 

 costa and above inner margin, incurved between those points ; 



