iiuuiw. 529 



fold; antemedial line brown, oblique, waved: orbicular raid 

 renil'orni indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by red-brown, the 

 former round ; a diffused red-brown medial shade, oblique from costa 

 to just beyond the reniform, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line red-brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then produced 

 to slight streaks on the veins, oblique, slightly incurved at discal 

 fold and below vein 4, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line defined by red-brown suffusion on inner side, 

 angled outwards at veins 7, G, excurved and minutely waved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight brown lunulcs. Hind wing 

 ochreous tinged with brown especially on terminal area ; a firm 

 brown terminal line ; the underside white, the costal area and 

 terminal area to vein 2 suffused with rufous, faint diffused waved 

 rufous postmedial and subterminal lines, the former extending to 

 vein 4, the latter to vein 2. 



Hah. Burma, Pangoon (Scott), 1 J , 1 $ tvpe opacaria ; Java; 

 Celebes. Exp. 3 30, 2 36 millim. 



4256. Hadjina viscosa. 



Mythimna viscosa, Frr. XeueBeitr. i. p. 39, pi. 21. f. 3 (Aug. 1831) ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 170. 

 Mythimna implexa, Treit. Scbmett. Eur. s. 2. p. 73 (133">), nee Htibn. ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 98, pi. 53. f. 7. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey scales ; tarsi 

 fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing red- 

 brown slightly irrorated with greyish ochreous ; subbasal line 

 absent ; antemedial line hardly traceable, greyish, waved ; clavi- 

 form absent ; orbicular and reniform small with faint grey annuli, 

 undefined, the former oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line very indistinct, slightly defined by grey on 

 outer side and with prominent grey striga from costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle; a terminal 

 series of blackish points ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind 

 wing white, the termen tinged with pale red-brown from apex to 

 submedian fold, in female almost entirely suffused with brown ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with red. 



Ab. 1. Much more ochreous or grey irrorated with fuscous and 

 with hardly a trace of rufous : fore wing with the ante- and post- 

 medial lines more distinct, the former angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein I, 

 a dark patch sometimes present between orbicular and reniform. 

 - — Persian Gulf. 



Hob. Spain, Andalusia ; Sicily; Canaries; Stria, 3 S , 1 2 ; 

 Persian Gulf, Fao (Cuming), 7 d,2 $; Sind, Karachi (T. R, 

 Bell), 1 6 , 2 2 • Exp. 28-34 millim. 



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