(>SS NOCTUID.r.. 



b 3 . Fore wing with the dark shade extending from 



below apex to inner margin te>iuesce>i.<. 



c 3 . Fore wing with dark shade at apex and from 



cell to inner margin huita. 



b l . Fore wing with the terminal area dark. 



a 2 . Fore wing without semicircular white patch on 



postmedial part of costa semibrunnea. 



b 2 . Fore wing with semicircular white patch on post- 

 medial part of costa cuta. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform absent. 



a. Fore wing with curved white fascia from base below 



the cell to the white costal fascia beyond the cell ... alata. 



b. Fore wing without curved white fascia. 



a 1 . Fore wing pinkish with yellow subbasal and medial 



bands jativa. 



b l . Fore wing yellow with incurved grey postmedial 

 band. 

 a 2 . Fore wing with the band narrow, defined by white 



on inner side only peril a. 



h". Fore wing with the band broad, denned by white 



on both sides venustula. 



c 1 . Fore wing with the basal half yellow, at least in 

 male, the terminal half dark. 

 a 2 . Fore wing with the outer edge of yellow area erect 



and defined by white clausula. 



b 2 . Fore wing with the outer edge of yellow area 

 oblique and not defined by white. 



a 3 . Hind wing whitish suffused with brown semijlava. 



IP. Hind wing dark brown, the basal are;i of fore 

 wing of female brown irrorated with grey and 



a few olive-yellow scales Jlavibasis. 



(/i. Fore wing uniform glossy black-brown slightly 



irrorated witli grey fumata. 



6037. Tarachidia margarita. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 19.) 

 Spragueia margarita, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 163 (1904). 



5 . Head pure white, the palpi at tips and antennae brownish ; 

 thorax yellowish white suffused with olive-green; pectus and legs 

 white, the tibise and tarsi banded with brown; abdomen reddish 

 brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing with the basal area 

 yellowish white ; subbasal line rufous, from costa to submediau 

 fold ; the rest of wing olive-brown with a cupreous tinge, the 

 medial and apical areas suffused in parts with silvery grey ; ante- 

 medial line represented by the contrast between the basal and 

 medial areas, excurved to median nervure and incurved in sub- 

 median interspace; orbicular and reniform with very slight whitish 

 annuli, small, round; a triangular postmedial white patch on costa, 

 the postmedial line arising from its apex and obscurely defined by 

 dark suffusion on inner side, strongly incurved below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line white, almost obsolete towards costa, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards above and below vein 2 and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; some dark points and striae on termen 

 slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia brown, whitish at 

 tips and with whitish patches at middle and tornus. Hind wing 



