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NOCTUID.B. 



medial liuf blackish, oblique, straight, slightly bent inwards to 

 costa ; orbicular a minute black point; reniform a small white 

 spot with white ])oint above it ; a rather difl'usod brown medial 

 line, very oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, tlien slightly 

 incurved ; postniedial line blackish, slightly excurved below vein 7, 



Fig. 58. — Elydna lineosa, c? • 



then oblique : subterminal line indistinct, brown, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with fuscous brown, the apical area whitish ; cilia whitish ; 

 the underside suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area paler, 

 an indistinct subterminal line, 



2 , Hind "wing on underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal bar and indistinct postmcdial line. 



Hah. Japax, Tokio ( J/rtyt^'.v), 1 J , 1 $, Yokohama (Pr?/^>-), 3 d, 

 2 $ ; CoREA, Gensan (Leech). 1 $ ; W. China, Omei-shan, 1 $ , 

 Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 d ; Punjab, Kulu (Hochinrj), 1 d , 1 $ , 

 Dalhousie, 1 S , type. Exp. 3-4-42 millim. 



tP. Fore and bind wings of male with the medial part of termen excised. 



4517. Elydna truncipennis, n. sp. 



Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale rufous, the head 

 rather whiter ; paljn blackish, whitish at tips and in front: tarsi 

 blackish ringed witli wliite ; abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous 

 brown. Fore wing pale rufous with slight dark irroration, the 



Fig. 59. — Elydna truncipennis, ^ • 1 . 



terminal area rather darker ; subbasal line blackish, straight from 

 costa to submedian fold in which there is a black point beyond it 

 and a white point in cell further from base ; antemedial line 

 blackish, erect, slightly bent inwards to costa and incurved below 

 submedian fold; orbicular represented by a black point, the 

 reniform by a small yellowish-white spot usually with white 

 jmitit above it and tAvo minute points below it ; a diffused dark 

 medial line, oblique from costa lo median nervure, then incurved : 



