158 NOCTUID-F, 
on costa towards apex; subterminal line defined by short brown 
streaks before and beyond it below costa and slightly by brown on 
the pale inner half, minutely waved ; a series of dark lunules just 
before termen defined on inner side by whitish. Hind wing 
hyaline, the veins, terminal area, and inner margin fuscous brown ; 
cilia pale yellow with a dark line through them from apex to vein 
; the underside with dark discoidal striga and striga from middle 
sf costa. 
Ab. 1. Patagia and fore wing with the red-brown replaced by 
fuscous black. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with black streak below median nervure, 
9. Head and vertex of thorax with much more ochreous white ; 
fore wing much redder chocolate-brown, the patch on inner medial 
area larger, the medial line oblique to vein 1. 
Ab. 2, Fore wing with reddish ochreous patch on antemedial 
area from costa to vein 1. 
Ab. 4. Fore wing with the chocolate-brown areas replaced by 
black. 
Hab. Sryeavors (Ridley), 2 3,9 2 type. Hep, 34-46 millim, 
6383. Stictoptera cucullioides. 
Stictoptera cucullioides, G@uen. Noct. iii. p. 52 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind, 
i. p. 401. 
d. Head and thorax rufous mixed with some ochreous, the 
patagia grey with some rufous on upper edge; pectus ochreous, the 
legs tinged with brown, the tarsi with fuscous; abdomen grey 
suffused with red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous. [ore wing 
grey, the costa red-brown, expanding at apex, the tornal area 
obliquely red-brown from inner margin before middle to termen 
below vein 5; subbasal line represented by double dark striz from 
Fig. 53.—Stictoptera cucullioides, . }. 
costa; antemedial line double, very indistinct except at costa and 
inner margin, waved, angled inwards at vein 1 and outwards to 
near medial line above inner margin; claviform represented by an 
oblique striga at extremity ; orbicular faintly defined on outer side, 
the Mea faintly defined and with tuft of dark scales in centre : 
medial line indistinct, sinuous, oblique to submedian fold, then 
inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, double, bent out- 
wards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4; sub- 
