neio »^p^c«V.s oy NoctuldEe. 539 



black. Fore wing dark red-brown, suffused witb leaden- 

 silvery scales, especially on inner and terminal areas ; traces 

 of two curved subbasal lines from costa to vein I ; three 

 indistinct waved anteraedial lines with striae of raised black 

 scales beyond them in and below cell ; au indistinct, waved, 

 brown medial line ; two slij^ht, obliquely placed, black dis- 

 coidal striae ; postmedial line double, sinuous, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then retracted to below end 

 of cell, and with traces of a waved brown line beyond it; 

 subterminal line dark defined by leaden-silvery suffusion on 

 inner side and with dark patch before it on costal area, 

 excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a series of small dark spots 

 just before termen. Hind wing dark red-brown, the cilia 

 silvery at tips ; the underside paler. 



Hub. SiKHiM, 1 ? type. Exp. 24 mm. 



Gyrtona polionota, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax pale red-brown sufi'used with grey ; 

 abdomen grey, the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown, mostly suffused with grey and slightly in-orated 

 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 out- 

 wards below costa and oblique below vein 4, the outer line 

 somewhat dentate and with some black points on it ; sub- 

 terminal line represented l)y a series of black points, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and shghtly excurved at middle, followed 

 by an indistinct slightly waved line ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous, the interspaces of 

 basal half pale and thinly scaled. 



Hah. WooDLARK {Meek), 1 ? type. Exp. 30 mm. 



Gyrtona polymorpha, sp. n. 



(^ . Head and thorax purplish black-brown with some 

 rufous on head, tegulai, and prothorax ; pectus and hind legs 

 greyish; tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen fuscous, 

 whitish below. Fore wing purplish black-brown with traces 

 of waved subbasal, antemedial, and medial lines ; reniform 

 defined by black ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 a double minutely waved subterminal line, slightly excurved 

 at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, slightly paler at base; 

 the vmderside paler with indistinct curved postmedial line. 



