202 NOCTUID.E, 
fore legs brown, the tarsi tinged with white; abdomen white, 
dorsally suffused with red-brown, the basal crest blackish. Fore 
wing white faintly tinged with olive and slightly irrorated with 
red-brown; a red-brown fascia on inner margin from near base, 
expanding triangularly on terminal area to vein 5; antemedial line 
represented by two slight striz from costa; tufts of raised scales 
in and below middle of cell placed on a red-brown band extending 
from discal fold to the fascia on inner margin; a tuft of raised 
white scales on discocellulars ; postmedial line represented by 
a series of slight dark points, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; 
subterminal line white with patches of dark brown before and 
beyond it below costa, excurved below vein 7; a terminal series of 
blackish striz defined on inner side by white; cilia red-brown. 
Hind wing fuscous brown. 
Hab, Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 2 9 type. Exp, 24 millim, 
6452, Nigramma dialeuca. (Plate CLXXIX., fig. 22. 
Gyrtona dialeuca, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 537 (1905). 
Q. Head and thorax red-brown with white stripes on sides of 
head and tegule and above patagia; palpi whitish at tips; abdomen 
pale fuscous, whitish at base, the dorsal crests blackish, the 
ventral surface white. Fore wing rufous with whitish fascia from 
base of costa through the cell to termen below apex; a white 
streak on inner margin from near base to subterminal line towards 
which it increases in width; two rather interrupted medial lines, 
bent inwards to costa and ferminatine at vein 1 where they meet; 
reniform defined by slight tufts of raised black scales ; postmedial 
line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa 
and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line whitish, excurved at 
middle, defined by blackish ‘marks before and beyond it at costa and 
middle and a black spot beyond it above tornus; a terminal series 
of blackish striw. Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of 
basal half semihyaline. 
Hab. Borxeo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 Q type. Ewp, 26 millim, 
*61453. Nigramma purpurascens. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 23.) 
Sadarsa purpurascens, Beth.-Baker, Noy. Zool. xiii. p. 235 (1906). 
2. Head and tegul black-brown ; thorax reddish brown mixed 
with dark brown, the prothoracic crest black-brown, reddish brown 
at tip; pectus rufous in front; legs greyish, the tarsi blackish 
ringed with whitish, the fore tibie black at base, rufous at tips ; 
abdomen greyish fuscous with white dorsal band on 2nd segment 
followed by points on the other segments, the ventral surface 
whitish. Fore wing black-brown with a purple-grey gloss on 
basal half and inner area, the costal area on terminal half rufous to 
median neryure and vein +; antemedial line rather diffused, black, 
