306 NOCTUID®. 
greyish suffused with fuscous, a dorsal series of triangular greyish 
patches defined at sides by black, the crests black at tips; pectus 
and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, the legs with blackish 
mixed. Fore wing olive-greyish, pale red-brown irrorated with 
black, or blackish ; a slight black streak below base of cell; sub- 
basal line represented by a curved black striga from costa ; ante- 
medial line double, slightly angled outwards below costa, then 
somewhat oblique and waved ; medial line slightly angled outwards 
below costa, then indistinct, oblique, sinuous; reniform large, 
irregularly rounded, defined by black and with tuft of blackish hair 
in centre; postmedial line double and oblique from costa to discal 
fold, then single, somewhat inwardly oblique, strongly incurved in 
submedian interspace and bent outwards at vein 1; subterminal 
line slight, whitish defined on inner side by blackish, minutely 
Fig. 106.—DPlothcia decrescens, G. }. 
waved, angled inwards at discal fold, the interspaces beyond it 
streaked with black from apex to discal fold and towards tornus; a 
terminal series of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing fuscous 
brown, the cilia whitish at tips and with blackish patch at tornus ; 
the underside greyish suffused with fuscous brown. 
Ab. 1. signata. Fore wing with blackish suffusion on basal, 
apical, and tornal areas. 
Ab, 2. guttulosa. Fore wing with series of small black spots on 
the antemedial and postmedial lines and before tie subterminal line. 
Ab. 3. spurcata. Fore wing with black medial patch from costa 
to median nervure. 
Ab. 4. Fore wing suffused with leaden grey, except basal, apical, 
and tornal areas. 
Ab. 5. lativitta. Similar but fore wing with the suffusion fuscous 
black. 
Ab. 6. imprimens. Fore wing with the inner area suffused with 
black with whitish patches at middle and tornus and white streak 
on medial part of inner margin, 
Ab. 7. Fore wing with pure white apical patch. 
Ab. 8. Fore wing with the inner area pure white to postmedial 
line and with white apical patch. 
Ab. 9. Similar but with series of small black spots on the veins. 
Ab. 10. lichenoides. Fore wing with oblique ochreous antemedial 
bands suffused with rufous. 
Ab. 11. Similar but with the band whitish. 
