2V2 



NOCTIID^. 



A. Hind wint; <>f mule white, the veins nnd tennen slightlj 



tinned with brown lnufrlmta. 



B. Hind wing uf mnle wholly tinged with brown, the 



terminal nren brmidly dnrk mija. 



2.'J91. Euscotia inextricata. 

 Bhicogi-ammo uirxtricata, Mf)ore, P. Z. S. 1881, j). 342 ; Hm))fln. Motlis 



Ind. 



II. p. --'37. 



Head and tliorax groy mixed with brown; tcfjula; with black 

 medial line and slij^lit lines near base and before tips, which arc 

 dark : patagia with black line near upi)er edge, which is dark ; 

 tibiae with black streaks: abdomen "jrey dorsally suffused with 

 brown. P^ore wing grey irroratcd and suffused with brown ; the 

 veins with slight dark streaks ; a black streak below base of cell; 



,^^-v^d 



Fig. 79- — Euscotia inextricata, ^. 



subbasal line represented by a very oblique striga from base of 

 costa and slight striga from cell ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, represented by very obli(|ue striaj from costa, then obsolete 

 to below median nervure, where it is angled outwards in submedian 

 fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; a slight 

 streak above medial part of inner margin ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by brown, the former 

 with slight brown centre, elongate, and its lower part produced into 

 a streak confluent with the reniform, which has its centre slightly 

 defined by brown ; postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa and very oblique below vein 4, strongly 

 angled inwards and forming a bidentate whitish mark in submedian 

 fold ; diffused oblitpie brown fascia' from it to termen below :ij>ex 

 and below veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of black point^i. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white, the veins of terminal half and the termen 

 slightly tinged with brown in male, more strongly in female ; the 

 underside with tlie costal area irroratcd with brown. 



Hah. Kashmib, Narkundah (McArthur), 1 $ ; PrifJAn, Kulu, 

 Sultaiqmr (O. Youv;/). L^ J , 1 $ , Simla (Harford), 1' (^ , 3 $ type, 

 Dalhousie, 1 $, Thundiani (Verfnirif), 3 c?, 1 $, Dharmsala 

 (J/ochintf), 5 (S , 3 $ ; Madras, Nilgiris (SwiuJioe), 1 $ . Exp. 

 52-56 millim. 



