270 NOCTUID^. 



crests. Fore wing with the apes rectangular, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; vein .'i from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 

 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle ; 

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



A. Fore wing with the costal edge white. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line straight albicosta. 



b. Fore wing w ith the postmedial line minutely dentate ... undulata. 



B. Fore wing with the costal edge not white unilineata. 



5407. Pseudacidalia albicosta. 



sta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 232 (1885); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 351. 



Head dark brown ; thorax and abdomen bright rufous, the 

 prothorax with white band ; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous, the costa white 

 leaving the costal edge rufous towards base ; antemedial line faint, 

 dark, curved ; two blackish discoidal points : postmedial line dark 

 defined on outer side by pale rufous, oblique, straight, from below 

 costa to inner margin ; faint traces of a pale subterminal line 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black 



Fig. 78.— Pseudacidalia albicosta, rf . 



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points. Hind wing bright rufous ; a minute white point at lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by pale 

 rufous, straight ; faint traces of a pale curved subterminal line ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with rufous, an indistinct diffused postmedial line and terminal 

 series of black points. 



J fab. Ceylon (Lewis), 1 $, Ohiya (Green), 1 tf , Dickoya 

 (Green), 1 d, 1 ? type, Pundaloya (Green), 1 $. Exp. 30-34 

 millim. 



f>408. Pseudacidalia undulata. (Plate CLVL fig. 27.) 



Pseudacidalia undulata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 351 (1894). 



Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen red-brown ; the prothorax 

 with a white band ; legs fuscous brown ; pectus and ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing red- 

 brown ; a white fascia just below costa defined below by deep red 

 and leaving the costal edgo red-brown, the white broken up by red 



