NIGRAMMA, 201 
6450, Nigramma lapidaria. 
Clina lapidaria, Wk. 7h 257 (1864); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M. viii. 
p. 18, pl. 143. f. 20; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 406. 
Clina rufina, Himpsn. Ill. ek B.M. viii. p. 86, pl. 146. f. 12 (1891). 
Clina basalis, Umpsn. IL. Het. B.M. viii. p. 86, pl. 146. f. 5 (1891). 
2. Head and thorax pale ochreous brown, the edges of tegulie 
and a dorsal fascia red-brown; pectus whitish; tarsi slightly 
ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown tinged with fuscous, the 
ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale ochreous brown slightly 
irrorated with red-brown, a red-brown fascia on inner margin from 
near base to tornus; traces of a double antemedial line, excarved 
below costa, then oblique and slightly angled inwards at vein | ; 
Fig. 59.—Nigramma lapidaria, 2. 3. 
traces of a straight medial line: reniform very faintly defined by 
brown and with dark point in ceutre ; postmedial line very 
indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, below vein 4 incurved 
to below end of cell; some minute brown streaks on terminal part 
of costa; subterminal line only defined by some brown points on 
inner and outer sides and a black spot on inner side in submedian 
interspace ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing 
fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal area somewhat paler; cilia 
whitish at tips. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the lines much more distinct, a brown 
mark beyond the antemedial line at median nervure. 
Ab. 2 (rufina}. Fore wing with the red-brown fascia expanding 
on terminal arca to middle of termen. 
Ab. 3. Fore wing with the fascia on inner margin black, 
Ab. 4. Fore wing without fascia on inner margin, 
Ab. 5. Similar but with the head, tegule, and prothorax black. 
Ab. 6. Similar to ab. 4 but with the medial line very prominent, 
Ab. 7. Similar but with diffused dark medial band. 
Ab. 8 (basalis). Similar but with black patch on antemedial area 
from below costa to vein 1. 
Hab. Manvras, Nilgiris (Lindsay, Cardew, Hampson), 7 2 types 
rufina and basalis, Coimbatore (Walhouse), 1 Q type, Palnis 
(Campbell), 1 9. Exp. 26-28 millim. 
6451. Nigramma perlignealis. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 21.) 
Hypochaleia perligneatis, W\k. xxvii. 46 (1863). 
9. Head and thorax white slightly mixed with red-brown; 
