6 NOCTUIDjE. 



SECT. IV. Antenna* of male with strong fascicles of cilia. 



2715. Mecodina oxydata, Swinh. MS. 



Brownish liver-colour. Fore wing with antemedial waved line 

 on a diffused ochreous band ; dark specks in and at end of cell, 

 the former with striga above it on costa ; a crenulate medial line 

 with a diffused ochreous band beyond it on which is the crenulate 

 postmedial line; an indistinct sinuous submarginal line and 

 marginal series of specks. Hind wing fuscous ; underside ochreous, 

 with cell-speck and postmedial line. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp-> <J 34, $ 36 millim. 



SECT. V. (Pantura). Antennae of male short and serrate. 



2716. Mecodina ophinsalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 173 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 



iii, pi. 177, fig. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 3007. 



Eed-brown ; the head and collar dark chestnut. Fore wing 

 with a speck at base ; sinuous antemedial and medial lines oblique 

 towards inner margin ; a black lunule on discocellulars often 

 broken up into spots ; a postmedial line oblique below costa and 

 angled above inner margin, with a nearly straight pale line beyond 

 it ; a chocolate quadrate patch on costa before apex ; a sinuous 

 submarginal line. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 42 millini. 



SECT. VI. (Senerati(i). Antennae of male almost as long as fore wing, 

 and with long curved spines to the joints as well as cib'a. 



2717. Mecodina praecipna, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1056; Moore, Lep. 



Cet/l. iii, pi. 173, figs. 2, 2 a; C. $ S. no. 2776. 

 Sympis turbida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 611 ; C. # S. no. 27G2. 



Violaceous grey ; the head bright chestnut ; collar red-brown at 

 base. Fore wing with subbasal, ante- and postmedial indistinct 

 waved lines, the last excurved beyond cell ; a medial indistinct 

 diffused line; a large subtriangular chocolate patch with pale 

 edges on the costa before apex ; a series of submarginal white and 

 dark specks. Hind wing with indistinct antemedial, postmedial, 

 and submarginal waved lines ; the outer area suffused with dark 

 red-brown. 



The form turbida from the Andamans is without the triangular 

 chocolate patch on fore wing. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Andamans. Exp. 46-54 millim. 



2718. Mecodina ruficeps, n. sp. 



$ . Fuscous with a slight purplish tinge ; the head rufous. Fore 

 \\ini: with pale ante- and postmedial patches; waved ante- and 

 postmedial lines ; an oblique ill-defined medial black band ; a black 

 speck at lower angle of cell ; an indistinct sinuous submarginal line ; 



