200 NOCTTTIDJE. 



1682. Hadena mediana, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 332 ; C. $ S. no. 1776. 



Ochreous white. Abdomen slightly fuscous. Pore wing irrorated 

 with dark scales ; a black subbasal line ; minutely dentate ante- 

 and postmedial lines, the former oblique, the latter excurved beyond 

 the cell, the area between them brown, with the orbicular and 

 reniform grey and conjoined ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia whitish. Underside with cell-spot 

 and postmedial series of specks ; both wings with marginal series 

 of specks. 



Hob. Simla. Exp. 34 millim. 



1683. Hadena elwesi, n. sp. 



c? . Violaceous grey, variegated with black. Fore wing with the 

 medial area darkest ; double subbasal and antemedial waved black 

 lines ; the orbicular, reniform, and a spot below the cell grey, the 

 first with a black speck at centre ; the postmedial line crenulate ; 

 the submarginal irregular line ill-defined ; a marginal series of black 

 specks. Abdomen and hind wing dark fuscous, the latter with the 

 base of cilia pale. Underside with cell-spot and postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim, 10,000 feet (Elwes). Exp. 36 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



SECT. II. Fore wing rather longer and narrower. 

 A. Antenna of male minutely ciliated. 



1684. Hadena dissecta, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 656 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, 



pi. 146, fig. 7 ; C. 4- 8. no. 2143. 



Head and thorax dark brown. Abdomen fuscous, pale at ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing dark brown ; the veins ochreous ; the sub- 

 basal, ante- and postmedial double lines ochreous, the second 

 curved, the last angled beyond the cell and met by a streak from 

 apex ; an ochreous doubly-curved submargioal line. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown. 



Hal). Sikhim ; Ceylon. Exp. 45 millim. 



1685. Hadena costigera, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 350; C. $ S. no. 2022. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown; palpi dark at sides. 

 Fore wing grey-brown, suffused with black and reddish brown ; 

 a broad pinkish-white costal fascia from the base to postmedial 

 line ; subbasal, ante- and postmedial waved double black lines, 

 the last incurved at vein 3; orbicular and reniform grey, with 

 whitish edges ; claviform almost obsolete ; the submarginal line 

 pale, angled below the costa and with some dark marks on each 

 side of it. Hind wing whitish ; the outer area suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas ; Khasis. Eocp. 42 millim. 



