218 NOCTUID®. 
mostly suffused with grey and slightly irrorated with fuscous; 
subbasal line represented by slight black points on the veins; 
antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved, curved, with 
some black points on it; traces of a double medial line; reniform 
faintly defined by black points ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 
bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, the outer line 
somewhat dentate and with some black points on it; subterminal 
line represented by a series of black points, angled outwards at 
vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, followed by an indistinet 
slightly waved line; a terminal series of small black lunules. 
Hind wing fuscous, the interspaces of basal half pale and thinly 
scaled. 
Hab. Woovtark Isp, (Meek), 1 2 type. Hvp. 30 millim, 
6477. Gyrtona proximalis. 
Gyrtona proximalis, W1k. xxvii. 90 (1863). 
Gyrtona ferrimissalis, W1k. xxvii. 90 (1863). 
Gyrtona costella, Wik, xxvii. 95 (1863). 
Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen brown 
with slignt greyish segmental lines; pectus and ventral surface of 
abdomen whitish. lore wing dark brown mixed with grey and 
with a slight purplish silvery gloss; subbasal line slight, dark, 
curved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinctly double, 
filled in with whitish and with whitish suffusion before it except 
towards costa, slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique, 
minutely waved, the inner line slightly angled inwards at vein 1, 
points of raised black scales on its outer edge in and below cell; 
Fig. 70.—Gyrtona proximalis, ¢. }. 
medial line dark, slightly sinuous; reniform slightly defined by 
black and with some raised black scales on its inner edge; post- 
medial line indistinct, treble, filled in with whitish towards inner 
margin, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly 
incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some white points 
beyond it on costa and an indistinct waved dark line; subterminal 
line double, dark, minutely dentate, slightly excurved below vein 7 
and at middle; a terminal series of black strie. Hind wing 
uniform fuscous brown; the underside paler. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing without whitish on the antemedial area and 
with a dark brown patch beyond the antemedial line from cell to 
inner margin, 
