150 NOCTUIDAE, . 
postmedial line double, dentate and produced to black points on the 
veins, excuryed to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal line whitish 
with slight black streaks before and beyond it below costa, then 
defined on inner side by dentate black marks and on outer by 
oblique striw, dentate to vein 3, then incurved; a terminal black 
Fig. 51.—Stietoptera descrihbens, 3. }. 
line interrupted by whitish points at the veins. Hind wing black- 
brown, the lower part of cell and the interspaces below and beyond 
it hyaline ; cilia with fine white line at base and whitish tips. . 
Ab. 1. Fore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown to beyond 
the medial line. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with crescentie black-brown patch in and below 
cel] from near base to medial line. 
Ab. 3. Fore wing with slightly curved black-brown fascia from 
base of median nervure to termen below apex. 
Ab. 4. Fore wing with fuscous black subbasal spot on median 
nervure, antemedial spot on vein 1, spots before and beyond the 
reniform, and a patch at apex. 
@. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing greyish ochreous 
tinged with brown, the last with a dark band before subterminal 
line. 
Ab. 5. Thorax and fore wing suffused with white. 
Ab. 6. (aylinata). Patagia and fore wing suflused with black, the 
latter with the terminal area pale obliquely from apex to inner 
margin beyond middle. 
Ab. 7. Patagia and fore wing to beyond medial line ochreous 
yellow. 
Ab. 8. Similar to ab. 2 of ¢g. 
Ab. 9. Similar to ab. 3 of ¢. 
Ab. 10. Similar to ab. 4 of ¢. 
fab. Bomway, Kanara (Ward), 1 Q type aylinata; Travancorr, 
Pirmad (Imray), 1 9; Ceyton (Vempleton), 1 ¢ type, Haldamulla 
(Machwood), 1] 33 SINGAPORE (diedley), 10 Gi; 26 Ds CHRISTMAS Th 
(Andrewes), 1 6,1 9; Cerenes; Br. N. Guinea, Ekcikei (Pratt), 
1 o,1 9, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 ¢. Hep. 34-46 millim. 
