198 NOCTUID. 
includens, Pundaloya, Dickoya (Green), 7 $,15 9. Eup. 30-36 
millim, 
6445. Nigramma longipennis, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 16.) 
3. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black and some 
grey ; pectus whitish ; abdomen grey with some black seales at 
base, the ventral surface tinged with fuscous except at base. Fore 
wing red-brown suffused in parts with purple and with some dark 
irroration ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; reniform 
faintly defined by blackish ; postmedial line formed by black points, 
bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; an indistinct 
dentate whitish subterminal line with dark streaks beyond it in the 
interspaces ; a blackish terminal line. Hind wing semihyaline 
yellowish white, the terminal half suffused with brown ; cilia white 
tinged with brown; the underside with indistinct diffused discoidal 
spot and curved postmedial line. Letinaculum normal. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Owgarra (Meek), 1 3 type. Ewp. 36 
millim. 
Secr. IT. (Clina.) Antenne of male minutely ciliated ; hind wing with slight 
fringe of hair at base of costa. 
A. Fore wing with the inner area not bright rufous. 
a. Fore wing without purple-grey suffusion on basal and 
inner areas. 
a, Fore wing without diffused whitish fascia from base 
through the cell to termen. 
a>. Fore wing not white tinged with olive. 
a®. Fore wing with the medial line sinuous. 
a‘, Fore wing dark brown mixed with purplish 
aerey 
. Fore wing with more or less distinct green- 
ish white patch at middle of vein 1 ...... pyraloides. 
6°, Fore wing without greenish white patch at 
middle of vein 1. 
a®, Fore wing without small dentate black 
marks before subterminal line............ subfasciata. 
b®. Fore wing with small dentate black 
marks before subterminal line............ todara. 
b*. Fore wing red-brown or ochreous in tone ... polymorpha. 
}°*, Fore wing with the medial line straight, erect ; 
colour) pallevelaysbrowimlacscseas<scxccee sadeceseaee lapidaria. 
b?. Fore wing white tinged with olive .............0.... perligneatis. 
b'. ore wing with diffused whitish fascia from base 
through the cell to termen ...... seaiisseucecisindes cuaciee dialeuca. 
b. Fore wing with purple-grey suffusion on basal and inner 
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B. Fore wing with the inner area bright rufous ..............00. - albicans, 
6446. Nigramma pyraloides. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 17.) 
Chuduca pyraloides, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 165 (1864) ; 
Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon, ii. p. 93. 
Gyrtona albedentata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 165 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths 
Ind, it. p. 403, 
Lophoptera kheili, Pag. JB. Nass. Ver. xxxviii. p. 30, pl. 1. f, 3 (18 88), 
