196 NOCTUIDE, 
white subterminal line defined by black on outer side and with 
blackish patch before it on costa ; a series of small black spots just 
before termen. Hind wing uniform fuscous; the underside rather 
paler. 
Hab, Srxcarorn (Ridley), 1 2 type. LEvp. 22 millim. 
Genus NIGRAMMA. 
Type. 
Nigranima WAKE Xxvils 1 (L865) -2.osasescanss-ntsnesscseseemeteedes quadratifera, 
Glanta, Wks xxxt 257 CVBO4) 2. cece conn ceee eee cee esac tee eae lapidaria. 
Chuduca, W\k. Journ. Linn, Soc., Zool. vii. p. 164 (1864) ... pyraloides. 
Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 
about to vertex of head and slightly fringed above by hair towards extremity, 
the 3rd moderate; frons smooth with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with sharp ridge-like 
crest; tibixe slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing 
Jong and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenu- 
late; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 
3. 4,5 from angie of cell; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the 
cell near base only. 
Sect. T. Antenne of male with long cilia, 
A. Hind wing of male with a bladder-like vesicle at base of costa with a 
ridge of large scales below it on underside. 
6443. Nigramma lophophora, n. sp. 
3. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with red-brown and 
some greyish ; pectus whitish ; legs and abdomen grey-brown, the 
latter with the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark reddish 
brown tinged with grey; antemedial line indistinct, waved, slightly 
defined on each side by red-brown ; medial line indistinct, waved ; 
Fig. 57.—Nigramima lophophora, 3. 1}. 
a slight tuft of red-brown scales at lower angle of cell ; postmedial 
line indistinet, double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 
dentate, strongly ineurved below vein 4 to below end of cell; sub- 
terminal line indistinct, greyish, dentate. Hind wing dark brown, 
the interspaces somewhat paler towards base ; a fine greyish line 
at base of cilia. 
Hab. Travancorr, Pirmad (Mrs. Imray), 1 $ type. Exp. 
28 millim, 
