30 NOCTUID.E. 



angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, then incurved and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black striae. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with fuscous brown ; a black discoidal spot ; a 

 sinuous postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish ; a whitish 

 subterminal line oblique from costa to vein 5, then waved; a 

 blackish terminal line ; the underside grey suffused with fuscous 

 brown. 



Hah. Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole), 1 $> type. Exp. 16 millim. 



5018. Araeoptera goniophora. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 21.) 



Arceopferon goniopliora, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. P>72 

 (1907). 



$ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some red-brown ; 

 abdomen red-brown mixed with some grey ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen grey-white, the fore tarsi brown ringed with 

 whitish. Fore wing grey-white mostly suffused with red-brown 

 and slightly irro rated with black : a minutely waved inwardly 

 oblique brown antemedial line with triangular red-brown patch 

 before it on costa ; a triangular red-brown patch on middle of costa 

 with diffused shade from it to inner margin ; a faint brown post- 

 medial line oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by brown, 

 oblique from costa to vein 5, angled inwards at submedian fold and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of blackish points Avith 

 whitish line before them. Hind wing greyish suffused with red- 

 brown and slightly irrorated with blackish ; a black discoidal spot 

 with dark line from it to inner margin ; a sinuous blackish post- 

 medial line with paler band beyond it; an indistinct pale subterminal 

 line defined on inner side by brown and with brown suffusion 

 beyond it, oblique from costa to vein 5, then somewhat dentate ; a 

 terminal series of blackish points ; the underside grey tinged with 

 red-brown. 



Hah. Ceylon, Peradeniya (Green), 1 $ , Hambantota(FoZe), 2 £ 

 type, Nawalapitiya (Mackwood), 1 2, Maskeliya (Alston), 1 $, 

 Pulo Laut (Dohertg), 1 $ . Exp. 10 millim. 



5019. Araeoptera griseata. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 22.) 



Arceopferon griseata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 671 (1907). 



Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; palpi and 

 irons blackish ; abdomen red-brown ; fore legs blackish ; mid and 

 bind legs and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing grey 

 thickly irrorated with red-brown ; a subbasal black point on costa ; 

 an antemedial black point on costa with rufous striga from it and 

 black points in cell and submedian fold ; two black points on middle 

 of costa with rufous mark below them ; a black point at upper angle 

 ■of cell and indistinct double sinuous oblique line from just beyond 



