514 NOCTUID^E. 



Fore wing purplish grey ; indistinct subbasal and antemedial waved 

 lines ; black specks at middle and end of cell, the latter with 

 fuscous spot on costa nbove it ; a sinuous postmedial ochreous line 

 sharply recurved from vein 4 to centre of discocellulars and with 

 black suffusion beyond it. Hind wing fuscous. 

 Hob. Nilgiris ; Moulmein. Evp. 32 raillim. 



*2537. Baniana ? conjugata, Moore. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 369 ; C. S. 

 no. 1904. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous brown irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing dark umber-brown ; the costa pale, with some 

 dark strigae from it ; the orbicular elongate, dark with pale edges, 

 and conjoined to the similar but erect reniform ; a pale streak 

 below the cell. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 28 rnillim. 



B. Palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints longer ; male ivith tufts of 

 Tiair from fore coxce ; mid legs with a long tuft from femoro- 

 tibial joint; mid and hind tibiae fringed with hair. 



2538. Baniana polyspila, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 966 ; C. $ S. no. 2387. 



Athyrnia tesselata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 76 ; C. $ S. no. 2388. 



c? . Pale reddish grey ; the head and collar golden brown ; the 

 tufts on fore coxae black. Fore wing with jet-black pale-edged 

 markings ; a speck at base ; a large irregular patch from below 

 middle of cell to inner margin, with a speck inside it on the margin ; 

 the orbicular small ; the reniform large ; a large irregular patch 

 from below end of cell to vein 1, with a pale line across it and a 



Fig. 289. Baniana polyspila, $ . {-. 



spot below it on the margin at its inner side ; its upper corner 

 joined by a postmedial series of spots ; a large subapical spot, 

 and another between veins 3 and 5 with a speck above it ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous. 



$ . Fore wing with the base of costa black, with ochreous outer 

 edge ; the cell and basal inner area to near end of cell black ; a 

 doubly-angled antemedial ochreous line from subcostal nervure to 

 inner margin ; a medial line highly angled in the cell, where it 

 almost touches the antemedial line, and also below the cell, where 

 it sends a branch outwards round the black area on inner margin ; 



