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NOCTUIDJE. 



spot in lower, elliptical; a medial black bar from costa and oblique 

 line from cell to inner margin ; tbe veins beyond the cell witb white 

 streaks with postmedial black point on vein 6 and oblique minutely 

 dentate line from vein 4 to inner margin, incurved in submedian 

 interspace ; postmedial part of costa with three small white spots ; 

 a broad black subterminal band interrupted by dentate white marks 

 between veins 4 and 2, its outer edges excurved below costa and at 

 middle and with white spot at vein 6 ; the terminal area with black 

 bar from apex and irregular spot at vein 0, the veins with short 

 black streaks at extremities ; a terminal series of black stria; ; cilia 

 chequered black and white. Hind wing whitish, the costal half and 

 terminal area suffused with black, the inner area with brown hair ; 

 cilia white intersected with black and mixed with black towards 

 apex ; the underside white, the costal area thickly irrorated with 

 black and the apex suffused with black, a diffused black bar from 

 middle of costa, slight discoidal spot, black postmedial line curved 

 and minutely waved from costa to vein 4, then indistinct, and ter- 

 minal series of lunules except towards tornus. 



2 . Hind wing nearly entirely suffused with black. 



The thorax has rather more scales than in typical species. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 9 type ; Tkavancoke, 

 Pirmad (Imray), 3 6 , 2 § , type imrayi. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



3605. Daseochaeta discibrunnea. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 22.) 



Diphihera discibrunnea,, Moore, P. Z. S. 18G7, p. 4C, pi. 6. i'. 14 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 295. 



Head and thorax pale yellow-green ; palpi brown, the extremity 

 of 2nd joint white ; irons with lateral brown bars ; antennas pale 

 brown ; tegulae and patagia slightly edged with brown ; shoulders 

 with brown patches ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with red- 

 brown ; abdomen whitish tinged with yellow-brown, the crests 

 fuscous at tips. Fore wing yellow-green mixed with whitish ; sub- 

 basal line double, black-brown, from costa to a red-brown patch in 

 base of submedian interspace with small blackish loop below it ; 

 antemedial line represented by small double dark brown spots on 

 costa and submedian interspace and singlo mark in cell, the inner 

 submedian spot confluent with the basal brown patch ; rdaviform 

 defined by a blackish lunule at extremity ; orbicular defined by 

 blackish lunules at sides, the reniform by blackish lunules at sides 

 with slight whitish striaa representing the annulus ; a red-brown 

 bar from middle of costa extending between the stigmata ; post- 

 medial line double, minutely waved, much interrupted, bent out- 

 •wards and interrupted below costa, interrupted by rufous at vein (5 

 and between veins 4, 3, incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards 

 at vein 1 ; postmedial area suffused with rufous except at costa 

 and inner margin, and with some white points with black streaks 

 between them on costa, its outer edge formed by the faint, minutely 



