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NOCTUIDiE. 



and prominent white spot at inner margin ; faint traces of a pale 

 curved subterminal line ; a fine waved black terminal line with 

 black points in the interspaces ; the underside greyish suffused 

 with brown, an indistinct dark discoidal striga and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 S , 1 $ type atriceps ; 

 Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 2 $ ; Hysol ; Dutch N". Guinea, 

 Kapaur (Doherty), 1 J ; Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 5 . 

 Exp. 22-2G millim. Type f $ and type acidaliaria in Mus. 

 Oxon. 



Genus ORUZA. 



Type. 



Oruza, Wlk. xxiv. 1089 (1862) costata. 



Zurobata, Wlk. xxxiv. 127ft (1865) rorata. 



Curvatula, Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 601 (1892) mira. 



I'ittappressa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 20ft (1906) rufiplaga. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd well developed ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without crests; tibise typically slightly fringed with hair, the spurs 

 long; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced 

 and acute, the termen typically evenly curved and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from ansle of 

 cell or shortly stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excurved at middle, then excised and 

 dentate ; hind wing with the termen angled at veins 7 and 4 ; fore 

 femora of male with tufts of long curled hair, the tibia with thick 

 tufts on both sides ; mid and hind tibite fringed with long hair on 

 both sides. 



*5357. Oruza unipunctata. 



Oruza unipunctata, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 215 (1906). 



d . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright flesh-red, the thorax 

 with a silvery gloss ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 



Fig. 64. — Oruza unipunctata, rf 1 . 



whitish, the tufts of hair on fore femora chocolate-red below, 

 ilir tufts of tibia chocolate-red. Fore wing bright flesh-red with 

 slight dark irroration ; antemedial line faint, pale with dark brown 



