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noctuid^;. 



points ; hind wing pale yellow tinged with red and slightly irrorated 

 with hlack, the terminal half pale purplish brown from costa to 

 vein 4, a black discoidal lunule, indistinct waved brown medial 

 line, indistinct dentate postmedial line with black points at end of 

 teeth, and small black lunule on termen below apex. 



Bab. Br. New Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), type f $ in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 24 millim. 



5087. Eublemma subangulata. (Plate CL. fig. 29.) 



Eublemma subangulata, Hnipsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xiv. p. 207 

 (1902). 



Head and tegulae pale rufous ; thorax and abdomen whitish 

 slightly tinged with rufous ; tarsi rufous ringed with white. Fore 

 wing ochreous tinged with rufous ; antemedial line hardly traceable, 

 incurved in cell ; minute black points in middle of cell and on 

 discocellulars ; medial line indistinct, very oblique from costa to 

 vein 6 well beyond the cell, then inwardly oblique, incurved below 

 vein 4; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line very 

 indistinct, with black points on its outer edge from costa to discal 

 fold ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia rather deeper rufous. Hind 

 wing ochreous suffused with rufous except at base and irrorated 

 with a few black scales ; a slight antemedial line ; two indistinct 

 postmedial lines, the outer somewhat diffused ; a subterminal series 

 of minute black points ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia rather 

 deeper rufous ; the underside yellow tinged with rufous and irro- 

 rated with black, a slight discoidal spot and traces of two postmedial 

 and a subterminal line. 



Hub. Ceylon, Pundaloya (Green), 3 3 , 2 $ type. Exp. 20- 

 22 millim. 



Larva. Coccidiphagous, preys on Maskellia zonata, Green. 



Sect. VI. Fore wing with the apex produced to a small lobe, the ternien 

 evenly curved ; hind wing with the cell about one-third length of 

 wing, veins 3, 4 from angle. 



A. Fore wing yellow with the terminal area rufous quadrapex. 



B. Fore wing creamy white galactea. 



5088. Eublemma quadrapex. 



Mestleta quadrapex, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 91, pi. 147. f. 15 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 343. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with yellow ; 

 antennae ringed with rufous, the tegulae rufous at base, legs tinged 

 with rufous, the tarsi irrorated thickly with black and ringed with 

 white ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally suffused with rufous 

 except at base and with lateral black streaks. Fore wing ochreous 

 yellow irrorated with brown to the medial line ; subbasal line 

 represented by a minute black point on costa; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, with a black point at costa, incurved in cell where 



