254 NOCTUID^E. 



and reniform grey and indistinct; the postmedial waved line 

 excurved beyond cell ; a submarginal series of white dashes 

 crossed by a larger subapical dash which is usually pinkish but 

 sometimes white. Hind wing pale fuscous. Underside pale ; 

 hind wing with indistinct cell-spot and crenulate postmedial line. 

 Hob. Europe ; Congo ; N.W. Himalayas ; Nilgiris. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



1839. Callopistria strigilineata, n. sp. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with red-brown and 

 grey scales. Fore wing bright rufous; a short subbasal line; 

 ante- and postmedial double lines composed of short strigae, the 

 latter excurved beyond cell ; the orbicular and reniform with white 

 outlines, the former round, the latter doubly curved ; an ill-defined 

 submarginal band ; some white specks on costa towards apex and 

 marginal and cilial series ; a white and grey apical patch and a 

 white spot on centre of margin. Hind wing pale ; underside with 

 spot at end of cell and postmedial line. 



Hab. Sikhim (Holler}. Exp. 34 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



SECT. II. AntennaB of male contorted at middle, but not 

 thickened or strongly ciliated. 



A. (Grnamptocera). Fore wing with outer margin evenly curved ; 

 legs of male not clothed with, long hair ; the tarsi and inner 

 spurs of mid legs fringed with hair. 



1840. Callopistria minuta, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 70, pi. 130, fig. 4. 



Head and thorax clothed with red-brown mingled with black 

 hairs ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing black, the veins ochreous ; 

 the ante- and postmedial lines not much curved and conjoined to 

 the orbicular and reniform, the whole space between them filled in 

 with yellow except a triangular patch bounded by the costa, 

 orbicular, and reniform ; a submarginal highly dentate ochreous 

 line. Hind wing dark fuscous ; underside with indistinct cell-spot 

 and postmedial line. 



Hab. N.W: Himalayas. Exp. 20 millim. 



1841. Callopistria minor, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 81, pi. 146, 

 figs. 16, 17. 



c? . Differs from minuta in being much darker. Fore wing with 

 the veins and space between the ante- and postmedial lines pale 

 reddish; the submarginal line broken up into irregularly disposed 

 blue-grey specks. 



$ . Uniformly much darker. 

 Hab. Mlgiris. Exp. 22 rnillim. 



