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with rather slender claw- ike spines on 1st joint. Abdomen with dorsal crests 

 on basal segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the ai-eole, 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent: from 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with white marks on subterminal line at middle and 



in siibmedian interspace lauta. 



B. Fore wing without white marks on subterminal line decreta. 



*1522. Lasianobia lauta. 



Mamestra lauta, Piing. Iris, siii. p. 119 (190U) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 254, add. 



Head and thorax grey-brown with a reddish tinge ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 grey-brown, with a purplish tinge and glossy texture ; a slight 

 curved black streak below base of cell ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black point on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, with 



Fig. 56. — Lasianohia lauta, (j* . i. 



an oblique black striga at costa, irregularly dentate, oblique, 

 connected with postmedial line by a black streak on inner margin ; 

 claviform small or minute, indistinctly defined by black with some 

 white scales on it ; orbicular and reniform moderate, with yellowish- 

 white annuli incompletely defined by black, the former rounded ; 

 postmedial line rather indistinct, slightly defined by grey on outer 

 side, with black point at costa and striga at inner margin, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, with yellowish- white marks on it at 

 middle and submedian fold, defined on inner side by rufous suffusion 

 and small dentate dark marks at middle and submedian fold, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; traces of some 

 terminal black lunules sometimes present ; cilia brown with a grey 

 line through them. Hind wing grey nearly uniformly suffused 

 with brown ; the cilia brownish white ; the underside brownish 

 white irrorated with fuscous, a black streak in cell, discoidal lunula 

 and sinuous postmedial line with dark streaks at the veins. 



Eah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type t Ui C'*IL Piingeler. Exf. 42 millim. 



