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another above inner margin ; the inner area and that surrounding 

 the lower part of the reniform, which is white and ochreous, suf- 

 fused with chestnut and olive browns ; some black streaks on the 

 oblique apical fascia, and some on outer margin below the middle ; 

 cilia chestnut, intersected by pale teeth. Hind wing white, the 

 veins and outer area suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Amur ; Japan ; throughout India and Ceylon. Exp. 38 

 millim. 



*1942. Auchmis ? cashmirensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 358 ; C. $ & 

 no. 1821. 



Pale ochreous ; palpi and legs marked with black. Fore wing 

 with the base speckled with black, and with a black streak above 

 inner margin ; a medial ochreous band, bordered by indistinct 

 sinuous double black lines ; the orbicular, reniform, and claviform 

 blackish, with ochreous edges ; some dentate discal black marks ; a 

 patch above outer angle and marginal series of black and white 

 specks. Hind wing pale fuscous ; the outer area darker, with 

 crenulate marginal line. 



Hob. Kashmir. Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus NONAGRIA. 



Nonagria, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 82 (1816). 

 Microsemyra, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 155. 



Type, N. dissoluta, Tr., from Europe. 



Range. Palsearctic region and throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis thin. Palpi obliquely 

 porrect, the 2nd joint evenly scaled, the 3rd prominent ; thorax 

 and abdomen without tufts ; tibiae without spines. Wings with 

 the cilia not crenulate ; fore wing with the apex somewhat acute ; 

 hind w-ing with veins 6 and 7 stalked or from cell. 



SECT. I. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from the cell. 

 A. Antennce of male ciliated, of female simple. 



1943. Nonagria inferens, WTk. Cat. ix, p. 105 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 145, fig. 3 ; C. 8f S. no. 1654. 

 Leucania proscripta, Wlk. Cat. ix, 



p. 106 ; C.Sf 8. no. 1655. 

 Sesaniia fraterna, Moore, Lep. Atk. 

 p. 103 ; C. 8f S. no. 1653. 



Ochreous. Fore wing with a red- 

 brown suffusion along median nervure 



xr . .^'- and veins 2 to 5 ; a marginal dark line : 



Nonaqna inferens, $. \. .,. n TT . , . & , ., 



cilia paler. Hind wing white. 



Hob. Sind ; Bombay ; Mhow ; Ceylon Burma ; Flo res. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



