76 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Noctuid Moths 



CoTANDA, Moore. 



Type Gotanda placodoides. 

 Eriojms jjlacodoides, Guen^e, Noct. ii. p. 296. n. 110 h. 

 Java and Nilgiris. Type Coll. B. M. 



Cotanda cethiops. 



Callopifstria (sthiops, Butler, Arm. & Mag. Xat. Hist, (o) i. p. 200 

 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Met. iii. p. 21, pi. xlvi. fig. 4 (1879). 



Japan and Nilgiris. Type Coll. B. M. 



Cotanda duplicilinea. 

 Plusia duplicilinea, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 70. 

 Sarawak. Coll. B. M. 



Cotanda indica^ sp. n. (PI. IX. figs. 8, 8 a, 8 i.) 



Callopistria Yerhurii^ Butler, 111. Tvp. Lep. Het. vii. p. 12, Index 

 (1889). 



Very like Ilemipachycera Yerburii, but differing in struc- 

 ture, in the presence of a pencil of long bri.stles at base of 

 primaries, and a fringe of long hairs on inner margin near 

 external angle, in its deeper coloration, in the outer margin 

 of the central belt of primaries being much less sinuous, the 

 discoidal markings more sharply defined in white and with 

 a difiused ochreous patch below them ; the vertex of the 

 head whitish at the margins. 



Expanse of wings 29 millim. 



Dharmsala, Canara, and Sarawak. Type Coll. B. M. 



IxHOPTROTinciiiA, Butler. 



Type lihoptrotrichia recur vata. (PI. IX. figs. 10, 10 a.) 



Callopistria recurvata, Moore, Descr. Lep. Ind. Atk. ii. p. 144 (1882)} 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. GO, pi. cli. Hg. 1 (1884). 



Ceylon, Java, Jubbulpore, New Hebrides. Coll. B. ^I. 



Ehoptrotrichia argyrosticta. 

 rerii/ea? argyrosticta, Butler, Trans. Knt. Soc. 1881. p. 177. 

 Tokio. Type Coll. r>. M. 



