14 NOCTUID®. 
6209. Bombotelia lineatrix. (Plate CLXXTIYV. fig. 15.) 
Penicillaria lineatrix, Wik. xv. 1776 (1858) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 894. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish red-brown ; pectus whitish 
tinged with rufous, the spurs and tarsi ringed with white. Fore 
wing purplish red-brown ; antemedial line with white striga from 
costa, then hardly traceable, cblique and with a brown shade before 
it below the cell; traces of an oblique medial line from lower angle 
of cell to inner margin towards which there are some yellow scales 
on it; postmedial line slight, white and strongly bent outwards 
below costa, then forming an oblique dark shade with a fine white 
line beyond it to vein 2, then almost obsolete, some white points 
beyond it on costa and a chocolate-brown mark below costa; sub- 
terminal line white, incurved from costa to vein 6 near termen, 
almost obsolete to vein 3, then incurved, with chocolate-brown 
patch beyond it, and ending at tornus, Hind wing pure white, the 
costal and terminal areas purplish brown, a brown discoidal spot ; 
the underside with elliptical black discoidal spot and punctiform 
postmedial line defined on outer side by white. 
Hab. Bompay, Canara (Ward), 2 2 type; Travancors, Pirmid 
(Imray), 1 3; Cryton, Pundaloya (Green), 1g. Hep. 26 millim. 
Secr. V, Antenne of male simple and laminate. 
A. Fore wing with the inner antemedial and outer postmedial 
lines strong and chocolate-brown on inner area ....,.......... plumbed. 
B. Fore wing with the inner antemedial and outer postmedial 
lines indistinct on inner area .......ccccccssecssecessee eeeaeeesace oxylopha. 
6210. Bombotelia plumbea. (Plate CLXXIV. fig. 16.) 
Penicillaria plumbea, W1k. xxxiii. 816 (1865). 
¢é. Head and thorax reddish brown, the scales tipped with grey ; 
tarsi ringed with white; abdomen brown suffused with grey, the 
Ist segment with chocolate-brown bands, the ventral surface grey- 
white. Fore wing red-brown suffused with purplish grey; an 
oblique chocolate- brown antemedial line from cell to inner margin 
with traces of another line beyond it; two black discoidal points ; 
traces of an oblique minutely waved line from just beyond lower 
angle of cell to inner margin; traces of a double postmedial line, 
bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, the outer 
line chocolate-brown with minute white streaks on the veins from 
vein 4 to inner margin ; an oblique wedge-shaped chocolate-brown 
patch from costa before apex to discal fold and with an oblique 
fascia from its inner edge to termen at vein 3; a fine dark terminal 
line. Hind wing with the basal half grey suffused with brown, the 
terminal half fuscous brown ; traces of a brown medial line and pale 
postmedial line ; the underside purplish white irrorated with brown, 
the terminal area suffused with brown, a black discoidal point and 
traces of medial and postmedial lines more distinct on inner area, 
