NIGRAMMA, 197 
B. (Niygramma.) Hind wing of male with slight fringe of hair on base of 
costa, 
a, Hind wing uniformly suffused with brown ............... quadratifera. 
4. Hind wing semibyaline yellowish white, the terminal 
heli setnSede wth OWI -2s..e8c.teccouswcatseversccceacs .. longipennis, 
6444, Nigramma quadratifera. 
Nigramma quadratifera, Wik. xxvii. 77 (1863). 
Gyrtona dorsalis, Wik. xxvii. ¥8 (1863); Moore, Lep, Ceyl. iii, p. 125, 
pl. 158. ff. 10, 11; Himpsn. Moths Ind. ii, p, 405, ’ 
Othora includens, Wik. xxxiii. 909 (1865). 
Ariola bryophilina, Feld, Reis. Noy. pl. 120. f. 10 (1874). 
¢. Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with greyish ; 
pectus greyish; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown with 
darker dorsal patches, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing red- 
brown tinged with grey ; antemedial line indistinct, double, slightly 
angled outwards below costa, then oblique; an indistinct curved 
medial line; reniform indistinctly defined by blackish and with tuft 
of red-brown scales in centre; postmedial line indistinct, double at 
costa, bent outwards below costa, strongly incurved below vein 4 to 
below end of cell, some alternating blackish and pale spots beyond 
Big. 68.—Migramma quadratifera, 3. 4. 
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it on costa; subterminal line grey defined on inner side by a dark 
brown band with slight black marks before it at discal and sub- 
median folds, slightly waved and somewhat angled outwards at 
veins 4,3; a terminal series of small black-brown lunules; cilia 
grey mixed with dark brown, Hind wing fuscous brown, the inter- 
spaces of basal half somewhat paler ; cilia brownish at base, whitish 
at tips; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the terminal 
area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal spot and rather diffused 
curved postmedial line. Retinaculum with fringe of large scales. 
Ab. 1 (dorsalis). Fore wing with obliquely placed black spots on 
median nervure and vein | beyond the antemedial line. 
Ab. 2 (includens). Fore wing with the antemedial and medial 
lines deep black, approximated below costa and at inner margin and 
enclosing a black patch in the cell. 
Q@. Head and thorax with white mixed; fore wing white 
irrorated with brown, the markings more distinct. 
Ab. 3. The type, corresponding to ab. includens 3. 
Ab. 4. Corresponding to ab. dorsalis 3, the black spots placed 
on a red-brown band narrowing towards costa. 
Hab, Cryton (Lempiston), 3 3,29, type and types dorsalis and 
