196 noctuid^;. 



point in base of cell ; a minutely waved fuscous subbasal line from 

 costa to inner margin, with some rufous suffusion beyond it in and 

 below cell ; antemedial line blackish, obliquely excurved from costa 

 to submedian fold, then incurved ; some blackish irroration beyond 

 it and an ochreous tinge at costa ; a black point in middle of cell ; 

 an inwardly oblique straight black medial band ; two black discoidal 

 stria?, the lower one oblique ; postmedial line slight, blackish, with 

 black striae at costa and inner margin, angled outwards below costa 

 and slightly incurved at submedian fold; a faint yellowish patch on 

 costal area towards apex and a reddish patch on inner margins 

 towards tornus defined on inner side by. fuscous; a punctiform 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia yellowish white with some fuscous 

 towards tornus. Hind wing white to posrmedial line, then blood- 

 red ; a black bar across middle of cell with a yellow patch beyond 

 it with the white discoidal lunule defined by black placed on it ; 

 medial line black, excurved round end of cell, then bent inwards ; 

 postmedial line tine, black, slightly angled outwards below vein 6, 

 then straight ; a faint whitish subterminal line slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 6 and with black spot before it above tornus ; some 

 blackish suffusion at apex ; cilia white, blackish at base, wholl}* 

 black at apex ; the underside white, a blackish medial band, the 

 terminal area dark brown narrowing to a point at tornus. 

 Hob. Ceylon, 2^,1 $ • Exjj. 16 millim. 



5304. Holocryptis phasianura. (Plate CLV. fig. 2.) 



Holocryptis phasianura, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vii. p. 2.">7 

 (1892). 



cT . Head and tegulae silvery white, the antennas yellow except 

 basal joint ; thorax white tinged with yellow : abdomen yellow with 

 dorsal black point on 3rd segment, the ventral surface yellow. 

 Fore wing white ; the costal edge black towards base ; a diffused 

 reddish ochreous subbasal shade from below costa to base of inner 

 margin ; a black discoidal point and diffused reddish ochreous shade 

 from end of cell to inner margin ; a diffused reddish ochreous patch 

 on costa beyond middle ; a rounded postmedial rufous patch between 



Fig. 41. — Holocryptis phasianura, $ . |. 



veins 7 and 4 and a blue-black patch irrorated with a few white 

 scales from vein 3 to inner margin, its outer edge strongly indented ; 

 a faint whitish subterminal line slightly defined on each side by 

 rufous suffusion, with brown point at costa, excurved below costa 

 and at middle, with black point before it below vein 3, then 



