404 NOCTUID®. 
vein 1; cilia orange, brown towards apex, and mixed with brown 
to vein 2, _ Underside of fore wing brown with some pale yellowish 
on inner area to beyond middle and on costa beyond the diffused 
black postmedial band ; hind wing orange with curved black-brown 
postmedial band from costa to submedian fold, and terminal band. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing nearly uniformly suffused with dark brown and 
with hardly any green. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing witb the basal and inner areas greener, the 
rest of wing suffused with black-brown. 
Ab. 3. variegata. Fore wing largely suffused with white, often 
with oblique black fascia from upper angle of cell to termen at 
submedian fold. 
Ab. 4. Fore wing much greyer; hind wing with the postmedial 
band narrow and pale.—Straits Settlements, Borneo, 
Hab. Sixuim (Atkinson, Moller), 2 3 type variegata; Assam, 
Nagas; Anpamans (fogers), 1 ¢,3 9 type; Perak, Kinta Valley 
(Rudley), 1 3,125 Sryearorp (fidley), 1 9; Borneo, Sadong 
(Shelford), 1 $; Br. N. Gunna, Ekeikei (Pratt), 5 ¢,42, Mt. 
Kebea (Pratt),1 g. Exp. 36-44 millim, 
Sect. III. Palpi of male with the base of 2nd joint dilated and hollowed out 
on outer side into a ear-shaped vesicle of white membrane. 
A. Hind wing with broad orange postmedial band from vein 6 
Lord bove imum ersman oun) pr sesccem cee adteeeee ee etians nae areeeiereee auriculata. 
B. Hind wing with slight curved orange postmedial bar 
bel ween, yoins' 5: and ,2 io. 2.cecccpo sess sen sotessnaeoseosapemetees malachitis, 
6739. Blenina auriculata, n. sp. 
3. Head and thorax bright sap-green mixed with black-brown 
on dorsum of thorax ; palpi white at base ; pectus and legs creamy 
white, the fore and mid tibie with some green and fuscous, the 
tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen orange-brown, the crests and 
extremity darker, the ventral surface yellow. Fore wing bright 
sap-green irrorated with black and some white ; an oblique blackish 
striga from base of costa ; subbasal line indistinct, bent inwards and 
waved from subcostal nervure to submedian fold in which there is 
a slight black streak ; antemedial line very indistinct, angled out- 
wards below costa, then sinuous; a black discoidal striga with 
