70 NOCTUID.E. 



Sect. V. (Eublemmoides). Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the 

 termen strongly excurved at middle ; hind wing with the ternien 

 evenly curved, the cell about half the length of wing and veins 3, 4 

 from angle. 



A. Fore wing with highly dentate whitish subterminal line... acrapex. 



B. Fore wing without highly dentate whitish subterminal 



line. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial area rufous except to- 



wards costa ; hind wing with the medial area rufous. 



a'. Fore wing with the subterminal line angled outwards 



at veins 4, 3 pectorora. 



b'. Fore wing with the subterminal line not augled out- 

 wards at veins 4, 3 t&mirufa. 



b. Fore wing with rufous patch on medial costal area rvjiplaqa. 



c. Fore wing with rufous postmedial patch on costa with 



whitish mark below it a pici macula. 



d. Fore wing without rufous patches on medial or post- 



medial areas. 

 a'. Fore wing with the postmedial area purplish grey .. dinava. 

 b'. Fore wing with the postmedial area not purplish grey, subangulaia. 



5081. Eublernma acrapex. (Plate CL. fig. 24.) 

 Eubltmma acrapex, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 517 (1896). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white very thickly irro- 

 rated with dark red-brown, the last with pale segmental lines ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown. Pore wing grey-white very thickly irrorated with dark 

 red-brown ; subbasal line indistinct, whitish, waved, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; a dark discoidal bar 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; a sinuous dark line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dark defined on outer 

 side by wh:te, very strongly excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved and again excurved above inner margin, a dark patch 

 beyond it on costal area with some white points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, strongly dentate and defined on outer side by 

 slight dentate fuscous marks ; cilia red-brown at base, greyish at 

 tips. Hind wing grey very thickly irrorated with dark red-brown ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on outer side by whitish, obliquely 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved and bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line whitish, minutely waved and with 

 blackish points on its outer edge ; cilia with fine pale line at base ; 

 the underside whitish tinged with rufous and thickly irrorated with 

 dark brown. 



Hob. Cetlon, Puttalam {Pole), 1 $ type. Exp. 22 millim. 



5082. Eublemma pectorora. (Plate CL. fig. 25.) 



Thalpochares pectorora, Lucas, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Queensl. i. p. 109 

 (1894). 



S . Head and tegulse rufous ; thorax and abdomen violaceous 

 white, the former with a few brown scales, the latter with rufous 



