306 NOCTUIDJE. 



oblique fuscous shade from it to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 black, slight, with small spot at costa and series of points beyond it 

 on the veins, slightly excurved from costa to vein 4, then slightly 

 incurved ; subterminal line faintly defined by fuscous on inner side, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 slight black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with yellow-brown 

 especially on the veins and termen ; cilia whitish with brown line 

 near base ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, postmedial series of 

 minute streaks on the veins and terminal series of points from apex 

 to vein 2. 



Hub. Rodeisuez {Gulliver), 1 £ type. Exjp. 28 millim. 



3926. Athetis externa. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 17.) 

 Orthosia externa, Wlk. xxxiii. 715 (1805) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 2fiT>. 



<$ . Head and thorax rufous slightly mixed with greyish: palpi 

 fuscous brown ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen pale 

 greyish rufous mixed with some fuscous. Fore wing rufous 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line fuscous, curved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line fuscous, angled outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and angled slightly inwards on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular a small fuscous spot ; reniform a fuscous bar somewhat 

 constricted at middle ; medial line rather diffused, dark, oblique 

 from costa to reniform and somewhat incurved below the cell ; 

 postmedial line slight, blackish, bent outwarda below eosla, then 

 oblique and with black points beyond it on the veins ; subterminal 

 line yellowish defined on inner side by red-brown, oblique, nearly 

 straight ; a terminal series of minute black points ; cilia fuscous 

 brown. Hind wing reddish brown with a greyish tinge, the cilia 

 more ochreous ; the underside greyish tinged with ochreous and 

 irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, waved postmedial 

 line, and terminal series of small black lunules. 



JItib. Sizhim, 5 (S . Exp. 32-3(5 millim. 



3927. Athetis cervina. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 18.) 



ttattia cervina, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 348, pi. 38. f. 12; Hmpsn. Mollis 

 Ind. ii. p. 206. 



2 . Head and thorax cupreous brown slightly tinged with grey: 

 palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomeu grey-brown. Fore wing cupreous 

 brown ; subbasal line indistinct, straight, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line brown, angled outwards below costa and in- 

 wards in cell, then excurved ; orbicular small, defined by rufous and 

 somewhat elliptical ; reniform a small lunule obscured by a diffused 

 rufous patch ; an indistinct medial shade, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line brown, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some faint pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 



