530 NOCTUIDJE. 



2582. Podina paUula, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 275 ; C. $ S. no. 2682. 



Differs from oriolus in the base of the hind wing being fuscous 

 black and joined to the patch near anal angle. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas ; Assam ; Calcutta ; Ceylon. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



2583. Fodina stola, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 275 ; C. 8f S. no. 2683. 

 Fodina postmaculata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 113, pi. 105, fig. 5. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown ; collar and metathorax 



oanded with whitish ; abdomen orange. Fore wing with the basal 



part of costa purplish ; a large irre- 

 gular red-brown patch on basal half 

 of wing, with ochreous edges and 

 running out to an angle on vein 2 ; 

 the area between it and the large 

 red-brown patch occupying the apical 

 area, and extending nearly to outer 

 angle, ochreous ; an ochreous mar- 

 ginal line ; the cilia grey. Hind 



Fig. 295. Fodina stola, tf . {. w i n g orange, with the apical area 



fuscous black ; traces of a fuscous 



patch near anal angle. Underside orange, with dark medial patch 



to fore wing and apical patches to both wings. 



The Ceylonese form postmaculata is smaller, with the band of 



the fore wing between the red-brown patches narrower and 



whiter; hind wing with the black patch at anal angle large; 



underside more uniform orange. 



Bab. N.W. Himalayas; ISikhim ; Bhutan; Moulmein; Ceylon. 



Exp. 36-46 millim. 



2584. Fodina cuneigera, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 79, pi. 132, fig. 5. 



Head and collar chestnut, the latter with a white band ; thorax 

 black; abdomen ochreous fuscous. Fore wing ochreous brown, 

 suffused with fuscous ; the costa purplish ; a large, black, white- 

 edged, triangular basal patch ; a smaller triangular purplish-black 

 patch on costa before apex. Hind wing brownish ochreous suf- 

 fused with fuscous ; the apical area fuscous. 



Hab. Kangra ; Gran jam ; Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. 



2585. Fodina juncta, n. sp. 



c? Head and thorax dark brown ; a pale band on metathorax ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with the base brown, followed by an 

 oblique white band; a large irregular dark brown patch with white 

 edges on medial area, joined to a quadrate apical patch, and haviug 

 the medial costal area and area near outer angle pale brown ; a 

 black speck at end of cell. Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Bab. Sikhim (Dudyeon). E^p. 26 nii'lim. Type in coll. Moore. 



