68 NOCTUID®. 
Secr. If. Antenne of male with the basal half pectinated with very short 
branches on outer side only, the apical half ciliated. 
6277. Chlumetia transversa. 
Nachaba transversa, Wik. xxvii. 114 (1863); Moore, Lap. Ceyl. iii. p. 67, 
pl. 151. f. 3; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 376. 
Chlumetia guttiventris, Wik. xxxiv. 1271 (1865). 
Ariola corticea, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 89, pl. 6. f. 10 (1830). 
Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey and 
some red-brown ; palpi with black band on 2nd joint; tarsi ringed 
with white ; abdomen with the crests black, ventral white spots on 
3rd, 4th, and 5th segments. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish 
brown; subbasal line double, from costa to submedian fold ; reni- 
form rather pale and slightly defined by black, elliptical; medial 
line minutely waved, double at costa; postmedial line double, the 
inner line red-brown, the outer black, minutely dentate below costa 
and at middle; subterminal line whitish, excurved below vein 7 and 
at middle and defined on inner side by blackish patches at those 
points and below vein 3; a terminal series of vlack strize and a fine 
Fig. 25.— Chlumetia transversa, 3. 3. 
white line at base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown ; a faint whitish 
bar from vein 3 to termen at submedian fold; a fine biack terminal 
line and white line at base of cilia; the underside grey suffused and 
irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, rather diffused 
waved medial and postmedial lines, double subterminal line, and a 
terminal series of black lunules. 
Hab, Has. 1¢n.,1 9 type; Punsaz (Horne), 2 3, Manpuri,1 ¢, 
29 ; Beneaat, Calcutta, 1 ¢, Ganjam; Bomnay, Thanna Distr., 1 ¢; 
Crryion (Vietner), 38 2 type guttiventris; Burma, Rangoon (Scoté), 
1 9; Perak, Goping (Kistler), 1 9 ; Sincarore (2idley), 1 5,5 9; 
Bari (Doherty), 1 ¢,1 9; Cereses; D’Entrecasreavux Is., Fergus- 
son Is. (Meck), 1 $. Ewp. 18-22 millim. 
Genus PATATA. 
: Type. 
Pateta, Wik. xy. 1748 (1858) 9...) bicscsscote inc deena eee conspicienda, 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 
antenna of male almost simple; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, 
the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibix 
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