90 NOCTtTID-E. 



b". Fore wing with the lower extremity of 

 reniform not produeed to a point. 

 a 8 . Fore wing black-brown with a 



greyish gloss atra. 



b 8 . Fore wing fuscous irrorated with 



grey microdes 



c 8 . Fore wing grey with dark irroration. 

 a 9 . Fore wing with short black 

 streaks before middle of sub- 

 terminal line atrisquamata. 



b 9 . Fore wing without black streaks 

 before middle of subterininal 



line crypluea. 



d B . Fore wing pale rufous slightly ir- 

 rorated with grey. 



a?. Tegula; black at base heterogama. 



b 9 . Teguhe not black at base monochroa. 



J 6 . Fore wing with small white spot in 

 centre of reniform. 

 a 1 . Fore wing without terminal series of 



small white spots adelphodes. 



b" 1 . Fore wing with terminal series of small 



white spots leucosticta. 



c e . Fore wing with the reniform a black 

 lunule produced at lower extremity. 

 a 1 . Fore wing grey tinged with rufous ... interferens. 

 b 7 . Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous . flexirena. 

 d 6 . Fore wing with the reniform slight, dark. 

 a'. Fore wing fuscous grey irrorated with 



black adelopa. 



b 7 . Fore wing tinged with brown. 



u 8 . Fore wing with the orbicular a 

 whitish point defined by fuscous. 

 a 9 . Fore wing with the postmedial 



line not incurved at discal fold . nycteris. 

 b 9 . Fore wing with the postmedial 



line incurved at discal fold basisticha. 



b 8 . Fore wing with the orbicular ill- 

 defined, dark. 

 a 9 . Fore wing ochreous tinged with 



red-brown striolata, 



h 9 . Fore wing greyish ochreous acallis. 



c f . Fore wing with the orbicular absent melanographa. 



4053. Ariathisa tortisigna. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 27.) 



Ockropleura tortisigna, Wlk. x. 409 (1856). 

 Xitocris epiplecta, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 6 (1868). 

 Agrotis costalis, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het, p. 69 (1869). 

 Agrotis antipoda, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 21 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi whitish with blackish patch 

 at sides ; f'rons whitish below, blackish above ; tegulas reddish 

 yellow at tips ; metathorax with blackish patch ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with red-brown, ventrally irro- 

 rated with brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish to 



