208 NOCTUID.E. 



antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 

 without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the termen excised below apex 

 and excurved at middle, not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, J.l stalked. Hind wing 

 with veins 3. 4 from an»le of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle 

 of discocellulars; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



5321. Metacausta ustata. 



Tathodelta ustata, Hmpsu. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 448 (1897). 



$ . Head black-brown with some rufous on vertex ; thorax 

 ochreous tinged with rufous ; fore and mid legs in front and the 

 tarsi suffused with dark brown: abdomen ocbreous tinged with 

 rufous, the terminal half dorsally dark brown. Fore wing ochreous 



Fig. 49. —Metacausta ustata, rf . £. 



tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the 

 costal, inner, and terminal areas tinged with purplish brown ; an 

 indistinct sinuous antemedial line with black points at the veins; 

 black points in middle of cell and ou discocellulars ; a rather 

 diffused medial line excurved below costa and incurved below lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line slightly defined on outer side by 

 ochreous, excurved below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 pale ochreous, dentate, angled outwards at veins 7 and 4, incurved 

 at discal fold where there is a blackish patch beyond it ; a terminal 

 series of prominent black points ; cilia reddish ochreous irrorated 

 with black. Hind wing ocbreous suffused with rufous and slightly 

 irrorated with black ; a slight blackish antemedial line ; a small 

 black discoidal spot ; postmedial line slightly defined on outer side 

 by ochreous, minutely waved ; subterminal line ochreous, minutely 

 waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and with black band 

 before it from vein 4 to inner margin, some black suffusion beyond 

 it between vein 4 and submedian fold ; a terminal series of promi- 

 nent black points ; cilia reddish ochreous irrorated with black ; 

 the underside without rufous tinge. 



Hab. Assam, Khasis, 1 J type. Exp. 24 millim. 



