302 NOCTUIDA. 
6601. Selepa discigera. 
Gadirtha discigera, W\k. Journ. Linn. Soce., Zool. vii. p. 165 (1864); Swinh. 
Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 76, pl. 2. f. 14. 
Selepa strigifera, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 103, pl. 153. ff. 3, 3.@ (1885); 
Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 370. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey tinged with red-brown, the 
tegule and upper edge of patagia with dark brown stripes; palpi 
below, pectus, mid and hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 
grey-white. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown and glossed 
with purple, the veins with slight dark streaks, the submedian fold 
pale with a black streak on it; antemedial line indistinct, oblique 
and slightly sinuous to vein 1, then bent inwards; an oblique dis- 
coidal bar of raised scales ; postmedial line double, the inner line 
indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, 
then bent inwards, sinuous with tufts of raised scales on it to inner 
margin, crossed just above vein 2 by a blackish streak ; subterminal 
line defined on inner side by dark brown, oblique towards costa, 
then crenulate. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, or wholly 
suffused with brown. 
Ab, 1. Fore wing with diffused black patch in and beyond lower 
angle of cell to postmedial line. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with diffused black beyond antemedial line 
towards costa, and thence through upper part of cell to postmedial 
line. 
Ab. 3. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale grey-brown. 
Hab, Sixuim (Moller), 1 2; Bompay, Kanara, Karwar (7. R. Bell), 
13,1 23 Cryton (Lindesay), 1 2, Pundaloya (Green), 2 ¢,2 9 
type striyifera; Lr. Burma, Thayetmyo ( Watson), 1 9 ; SmncarorE 
(Ridley), 1 g : Borwno, Sarawak (Wallace), type tT in Mus. Oxon ; 
LouistapEs, St. Aignan (Meek), 2 9 ; QuEENSLAND, Townsville 
(Dodd), 1 3. Exp. 22-28 millim. 
Larva. Brownish ochreous with a dorsal series of slender erect 
black hairs which are very jong and with spatulate ends at an- 
terior and posterior extremities, lateral hairs white; a subdorsal 
black-spotted green band from 5th to 10th somites; dorsal black 
spots on 2nd to 5th and 11th somites, 
6602. Selepa leucogonia. (Plate CLXXXII. fig. 17.) 
Plotheia leweogonia, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 581 (1905). 
Q. Head and thorax grey slightly tinged with red-brown ; 
patagia with brown line near tips; abdomen grey, the crests dark at 
tips. Fore wing with the basal and inner areas grey slightly tinged 
with red-brown, the rest of wing ochreous suffused with rufous, the 
grey area defined by a black-brown line frem eosta to submedian 
fold in which it forms a streak to postmedial line, emitting a slight 
striga from its lower edge before middle; a slight oblique red-brown 
discoidal bar; postmedial line indistinctly double, very oblique from 
