300 jforrriD.K. 



has !x slif,'lit prcji.sh annuliis ililimd l»y black, somewhat oMiipie 

 elliptical; n-iiifonn hlif;l»tly defined Ijv black; an irregularly 

 sinuous medial line ; ])nstmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 then somewhat dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, 

 oxeurved to vein 4, oblitjuo to sul)median fold, then l>ent outwards, 

 some pale points beyond it on eosta ; su))terniinal line p^reyisli 

 slightly defined on each side by black, minutely waved, sliphtly 

 exom-vtd at vein 7 and middle, with black streaks in the inter- 

 spaces beyond it; a line waved terminal lino; cilia with tine pale 

 lino at base. Hind \\i\\<x yellowish brown tinp;cd with fuscous, the 

 termen rather darker ; cilia brownish oehrcous with a dark line 

 throutjh them ; the undersido whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 lda(k discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postniedial line. 

 Jlah. PcNjAii, Simla {Pilcher), 1 cJ type. Exp. 28 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the 3rtl joint short. 

 2468. Nyctycia persimilis. 



Bomhifcia perM))iili<. Ifnipsn. Moths Ind. li. p. 2<K3 (1W>4). 

 liiiphia viitiiiKilis, Bull. 111. Ilet. B. M. vii. p. 11 (nee Fabr.). 



c? • Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some fuscous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish ; antennae blackish with pale 

 riiip;s : leirulte with black lin<* near tips, which are fuscous; 

 abdomen grey-brown sufl'used with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown 

 sparsely irrorated with black and suffused with fuscous on medial 

 area; a sinuous lilack streak below base of cell; siibba-sal line 

 represented by two black .stria^ from costa; antemedial line oblique 

 from costa to sul»median fold; claviform rather large, defined by 

 black ; orbicular pale brown, defined by black, rounded ; reniform 



Fig. 02. — Kt/cti/cia })rrsii>ii/is, (J. {. 



l)ale, defined on inner side only liy a straight oblique black line: 

 postniedial line represented by double black striic from costa, then 

 very indistinct, bent outwards below costa and excurved to vein 4, 

 tlieii strongly incurved to below inner edge of reniform and 

 jtromincnt ; subterminal line very indistinct, greyish defined on 

 inner side by minute dentate black marks at middle and in sub- 

 median fold, excurved at vein 7 and incurved below vein li ; a 

 terminal .series of slight black lunules ; cilia with a dark lino 

 through them. Hind wing fuscous l)rown, the cilia greyish with a 

 fuscous line near base ; the underside grey sparsely irrorated with 



