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above it at base; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; orbicular 

 and reniforin incompletely defined by black, the former white with 

 red-brown centre, rather elongate elliptical, the latter suffused with 

 red-brown ; medial line dark brown, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, strongly angled inwards in submedian fold and out- 

 wards ou vein 1, a strong oblique black-brown fascia from it to 

 termen in submedian fold ; postmedial line double rilled in with 

 whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards 

 at vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; an indistinct 

 diffused whitish dentate subterminal line with slight dark streaks 

 beyond it in the interspaces ; cilia with a series of slight blackish 

 lunules at tips. Hind wing ochreous white more or less tinged 

 with red-brown, the apical area suffused with red-brown ; cilia 

 with a series of brownish marks at tips ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a diffused dark mark on middle 

 of costa, small discoidal spot and traces of postmedial line with dark 

 spots on and below costa and in discal and submedian folds. 



Hah. Japan, Xikko {Ro), 1 $ , Yokohama (Pryer), 1 J ; W. China, 

 Ckang-yang (Pratt), 1 $ ; Kashmir, Scinde Valley (Leech), 1 5 ; 

 Punjab. Kulu, Sultanpur (O. Young),2 J ,2 $ ,Dhannsala (Hocking), 

 4 6 , 1 5 type divisa ; Bombay, Kanara, Karwar {Bell), 1 S ; Ceylon, 

 2 tftvpe ; Burma, Rangoon ; Amboina ; Br. Xew Guinea, Mt. Kebea 

 (Pratt), ltf,3 5, Dinawa (Pratt), 1 S, Ekeikei (Pratt), 1$. 

 Exp. 36-48 millim. 



3628. Craniophora albonigra. (Plate CXXIV. fig. 3.) 



Acronicta nlhonigra, Herz. Aim. Mus. Zool. Ac. Imp. Sci. Petersb. ix. 

 r . 269, pi. 1. 1 3 (1904). 



J . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band ; teguke and patagia edged with 

 blackish ; tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown 

 with the dorsal crests blackish. Pore wing violaceous grey suffused 

 and irrorated with brown, the inner half to just beyond antemedial 

 line suffused with black-brown ; subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa and single striga from cell with black 

 streak from it to antemedial line, which is double, oblique, waved, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former with whitish annulus, round ; 

 medial line oblique from costa to median nervure, incurved to sub- 

 median fold, then obliquely excurved, defined by whitish on inner 

 side below the cell and with dark suffusion on outer ; postmedial 

 line double slightly filled in with whitish towards costa and inner 

 margin, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 excurved to vein 3, then incurved and angled outwards at vein 1, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa and crossed by an ill-defined 

 blackish streak in submedian fold from medial to subterminal lines ; 

 an indistinct pale waved subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 



