410 NOCTUIDjE. 



postmedial line waved from costa to vein 4, then excurved to lower 

 angle of cell and waved to inner margin ; a waved submarginal 

 diffused line. Hind wing varies in colour from vinous red to dark 

 brown, sometimes pale at base. 



The form metaxaniha is dark vinous red, with yellow patches 

 below base and end of cell of fore wing ; xantliochroa is a yellowish 

 form ; albitibia is dark red-brown or yellowish brown ; the hind 

 wing very dark. 



Larva with 4 pairs of abdominal prolegs, a few short black hairs ; 

 colour black above, olive-yellow beneath ; a subdorsal series of short 

 transverse yellow streaks with a series of yellow specks above 

 them ; the stigmata black ; head and legs pale red. In the form 

 albitibia the larva is olive-green or grey, with dorsal and lateral 

 yellow or whitish longitudinal lines; each somite dotted with 

 black. Food-plant Waltheria indica. 



Hob. Japan ; China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Java ; Australia ; Solomons ; Fiji ; Samoa. Exp. 54 millim. 



2304. Cosmophila lineosa, WIU. Cat. xxxiii, p. 862 ; C. $ S. no. 2243. 



Differs from the form albitibia in the antemedial line of fore 

 wing being oblique from the costa to median nervure, where it is 

 bent outwards, then straight to inner margin. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Nilgiris. Exp. 54 millim. 



2305. Cosmophila horsfieldii, Gmn. Noct. ii, p. 291. 



Briarda varians, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 06, pi. 6, fig. 12 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 2341. 



Dark chocolate ; the abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with waved 

 subbasal and antemedial lines on pale bands ; the reniform with 

 pale edges and constricted at centre ; a postmedial slightly waved 

 line on a pale band excurved beyond cell ; a submarginal ochreous 

 baud suffused with white scales, sending a projection to the centre 

 of outer margin and with dark spots and a patch towards inner 

 margin. Hind wing purplish fuscous brown ; the cilia chocolate ; 

 underside irrorated with white, and with a crenulate postmedial 

 line. 



In some specimens there is a large white patch on and beyond 

 the reniform, and a white streak on vein 1 from base to post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Java. Exp. 44 millim. 



*2306. Cosmophila sinnosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 375, pi. 37, fig. 7 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 2224. 



Brownish ochreous. Fore wing with an indistinct waved ante- 

 medial line ; a treble postmedial line and single submarginal line ; 

 the reniform ochreous. Hind wing with marginal lunulate line 

 and some streaks above anal angle. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. 



