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stripe on metathorax black-brown ; abdomen, palpi, pectus, and 

 legs crimson, the legs striped with black. Fore wing white; a 

 black-brown stripe below the cell from base ; a narrower stripe on 

 inner margin ; an oblique medial band from middle of costa to 

 near outer angle, widest at the costa, and with a line beyond it 

 from below the costa to vein 2, where it is recurved ; a large 

 triangular patch from costa at apex to above outer angle ; a mar- 

 ginal line terminating at vein 3 ; the outer angle crimson, with 

 three black spots on it. Hind wing crimson, with a submarginal 

 series of black spots. 



Hob. N. India ; Canara; Ceylon ; Tenasserim. Exp. 48 millim. 



2579. Trigonodes ino, Drury, III Exot. Ins. iii, p. 39, pi. 29, fig. 3; 



C. $ S. no. 635. 



Noctua notata, Fair. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 39; C. $ S. no. 2680. 

 Grammodes mundicolor, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 973. 



Differs from regalis in the oblique band of the fore wing being 

 quadrate from the costa to median nervure, where its outer edge 

 is angled ; the apical triangular patch wider, so as to extend close 

 to the postmedial line and the margin. Hind wing with a tri- 

 angular patch from the apex to near anal angle, inside the sub- 

 marginal series of spots. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nepal ; Madras. Exp. 38 millim. 



2580. Trigonodes tetraspila, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1076 ; Hmpsn. III. 



Het. ix, pi. 166, fig. 2. 



5 . Bright ochreous yellow ; the collar black. Fore wing 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a black band from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; a large apical black spot. Hind wing yellow, with 

 apical black spot. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus FODINA. 

 Fodina, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 274 (1852). 



Type, F. oriolus, Guen. 



Range. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi upturned, with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd long ; antennae of male with bristles to the joints ; 

 thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae without spines, and 

 not fringed with hair in male. Fore wing with the apex quadrate. 



2581. Fodina oriolus, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 274; C. $ S. no. 2681. 



Head and thorax black ; shaft of antennae and a band between 

 their bases white; abdomen orange. Fore wing black, with a 

 broad oblique medial white band ; the outer margin and cilia grey. 

 Hind wing orange ; the apical area black ; an elongate black patch 

 near anal angle and black streak at anal angle. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Sylhet. Exp. 48 millim. 



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