266 noctuidj:. 



5401. Lycaugesia rufipuncta, n. sp. (Plate CLYI. fig. 23.) 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey tiuged with brown ; 

 palpi black, rufous at tips; fore legs blackish; pectus, mid and 

 hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen brownish white. Fore 

 wing purplish grey ; the costal edge blackish towards base ; ante- 

 medial black points on and below costa and a few fiery red scales 

 in submedian interspace; a slight; rufous streak in middle of cell 

 and rufous patches in and beyond end of cell with the white 

 discoidal bar between them; medial black points on and below 

 costa and a slight oblique sinuous fiery red line from cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line represented by some black scales, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, then on outer edge of the rufous postmedial 

 patch, then by an oblique minutely waved fiery red line with a few 

 black scales on it and a black point in submedian fold ; traces of a 

 minutely waved red subterminal line, oblique below vein 4, with 

 three black streaks defined by whitish and with rufous between 

 them beyond it towards apex and slight black streaks below veins 4 

 and 2 ; a terminal series of slight rufous lunules ; cilia with some 

 black at and below apex. Hind wing purplish grey ; slight 

 minutely waved fiery red subbasal, antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines, the last with a few black scales on it ; traces of a 

 waved red subterminal line with black points on it at discal and 

 submedian folds ; a terminal series of prominent black points ; cilia 

 with a few black scales. Underside of both wings suffused with 

 fuscous ; fore wing with white discoidal bar. 



Hob. Cetlon, Maskeliya (Alston), 2 6 type. Exp. 12 millim. 



5402. Lycaugesia punctilinea, n. sp. (Plate CLYI. fig. 24.) 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey, the last faintly 

 tinged with rufous; palpi and frons rufous. Pore wing purplish 

 ; a subbasal black point on costa and rufous point below the 

 cell ; antemedial line rufous with black point at costa, minutely 

 waved ; a black point at middle of cell and slight discoidal striga ; 

 a slight incurved rufous medial line from discal fold to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line rufous with black point at costa, very 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then with series of black points 

 on it, oblique and slightly oxcurved at middle; some fuscous points 

 on costa towards apex; a faint minutely dentate subterminal line 

 with series of black points on it ; a fine rufous terminal line with 

 some black points towards apex and at submedian fold; cilia fuscous 

 with a tine whitish line at base. Hind wing purplish grey; a 

 slight black discoidal point ; minutely waved rufous subbasal, 

 medial, and postmedial lines, the last with series of slight black 

 points on it ; two minutely waved rufous subterminal lines, the 

 . r line with black patch at costa ; a rufous terminal line : cilia 

 black with a fine whitish line at base. Underside whitish, fore 



