330 NOCTTJIDiE. 



A. Fore wino' wit!) black liinules in centre and on onter edge of 



reuiforni rohusta. 



B. Fore wing with the reniforin defined by black points. 



(i: Fore wing with the postmediiil line incurved at discal fold, indisiinda. 

 h. Fore wing with the postmedial line not incurved at discal 



fold olivacea. 



4773. Xylostola robusta. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 28.) 

 Xonagria robusta, Hmpsn. Motlis Ind. ii. )). 285 (1904). 



J. Head aud thorax red- bfown mixed with some dark brown; 

 palpi black-brown ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus and legs 

 dark brown, the hair on tibiie red-brown ; abdomen black-brown, 

 the lateral and anal tufts rufous. Fore wing pale olive-brown 

 tinged with rufous, the terminal area dark brown except at apex ; 

 a diffused black fascia below base of cell ; traces of a diffused 

 obliqtie blackish antemedial line ; claviform represented by a 

 blackish point at its extremity ; orbicular incompletely defined by 

 black and with blackish spot in centre, round ; reniform defined by 

 black points and with small black lunulcs in centre and on outer 

 edge ; the extremity of median nervure and the veins beyond the 

 cell slightly streaked with whitish ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 l)ent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black 

 points on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line pale, 

 defined on inner side by a dark shade at costa and b}' black suffusion 

 between veins 7 and 1, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; a 

 fine black terminal line: cilia rufous with brown lines near base 

 and at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia rufous with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside grey tinged with rufous 

 and thickly irrorated with fuscous especially on costal and terminal 

 areas, a black discoidal lunule and diffused curved postmedial line. 



I/ah. SiKHiM (Knijvett, Dudgeon, Moivis), 3 S ; Assam, Khasis, 

 1 S • Exj.\ 42-52 millim. 



4774. Xylostola indistincta. 



Vapara indisfincta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 16.3 (1882) ; id. Lep. Ceyl. ill. 

 p. 120, pi. 159. f. 7; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 268. 



Head and thorax pale greyish red-brown, the vertex of head and 

 tegalte bright rufous ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with fuscous, 

 the tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen greyish sufi^'used 

 with fuscous brown, the ventral surface whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing pale greyish brown tinged with red-brown, 

 especially on postmedial area, and slightly irrorated with black ; a 

 black point at base ; antemedial line very indistinct, waved ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform a faint greyish lunule surrounded by 

 black points ; traces of a curved, waved, medial line ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 6, then waved, 

 slio'htlv incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4; sub- 



