5384 NOCTUIDAE. 
with the basal joint white on outer side ; pectus white ; legs white 
suffused with red-brown ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface 
white, tinged with pinkish towards extremity. Tore wing red- 
brown irrorated with black; an oblique blackish line from costa 
before middle to middle of inner margin ; a blaekish disccidal point; 
postmedial line blackish, obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, 
then slightly incurved; subterminal line blackish, punctiform, 
oblique from below costa to below vein 7 and angled inwards at 
discal fold; cilia grey-brown at base, ochreous at tips. Hind wing 
white tinged with brown, the veins brown; cila white; the 
underside creamy white, the costal area shghtly irrorated with 
rufous. 
Hab. Bompay, Mhow (Forsayeth}, 1 $, Kanara (Ward), | 2 
type; Cryton, 2 ¢. Exp. 40 millim. 
Cocoon. Yellowish with thorn-like knobs and a long oblique tuft 
of dark hair anteriorly on dorsum. 
6914. Aiteta damnipennis. 
Phanaca damnipennis, Wik. xxxili. 857 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B. M. 
ix. p. 101, pl. 159. f. 7; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 419, 
Head and thorax dark fuscous brown, the metathorax with 
redder pateh; pectus and legs white, the tibise irrorated with 
red-brown, the tarsi red-brown ringed with white; abdomen 
fuscous brown with a greyish tinge, the erests tipped with grey, 
the ventral surface white tinged with pinkish. Fore wing 
chocolate-brown suffused with purplish grey and with slight dark 
irroration ; the costal edge whitish ; antemedial line dark, oblique, 
sinuous ; a blackish discoidal point; postmedial line dark, oblique 
from below costa to vein 6, incurved at diseal fold and below 
vein 4, excurved above inner margin; an oblique subapical series 
of three slight dark spots from below costa to below vein 7 and 
a subterminal spot below vein 5. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 
costal area grey to end of cell; cilia whitish at tips; the under- 
side uniform dark brown. 
Hab. Travancorn, Pirmdd (Jmray), 1 $, 2 23 Crrton 
(Templeton), 1 Q type, Nawalapittia (Green), 1 9. Hap. 30- 
32 millim. 
6915. Aiteta truncata. 
Brada truncata, Wik. xv. 1666 (1858); Moore. Lep. Ceyl. ii. p.118, 
pl. 122. f. 2,a,6; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 419. 
Head and thorax chocolate red-brown ; antenne with the basal 
joint white at sides; pectus white; legs red-brown ; abdomen 
fuscous brown, the crests and anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface 
white tinged with rufous. Fore wing chocolate red-brown with 
dark irroration, the costal edge pale; antemedial line whitish 
defined on outer side by dark brown, oblique, straight, from costa 
to middle of inner margin; a.small blackish discoidal spot ; post- 
