24 NOCTUIDJE. 



three arising from black specks on the costa ; two black specks at 

 end of cell ; a pale waved submarginal line and marginal series of 

 pale specks ; some pale specks on costa towards apex. Hind wing 

 with pale medial line and submarginal series of specks. 

 Hab. N. China ; Eangoon. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus RAPARNA. 



Raparna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 177 (1882). 

 Hingula, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 180. 

 Byturna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 28. 



Type, R. ochreipennis, Moore. 



Range. Africa; Japan; China; throughout the Oriental and 

 Australian regions. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and thickly 

 scaled, the 3rd long and naked ; antennae minutely ciliated in 

 male ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae nearly naked. 

 Fore wing with the apex rectangular or rounded ; the areole some- 

 times very small or absent. Hind wing with vein 5 from well above 

 lower angle of cell ; veins 3 and 4 from cell or on a very short 

 stalk. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with the apex rectangular. 



2772. Raparna digramma, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1170; C. # S. 



no. 3009. 



Bocana erubescens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1170; C. $ S. no. 2998. 

 Thermesia scitula, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1973 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



Hi, pi. 174, fig. 6 ; C. $ S. no. 2827. 



Bvturna cucullata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 254 ; C. 8f S. no. 3008. 

 ]\fyana atromacula, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 5V3, pi. 48, fig. 5 ; 



C. $ S.no. 3031. 

 Myana sopora, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pi. 48, fig. 4 ; 



C. Sr S.no. 3032. 

 Marimatha lactea, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pi. 48, fig. 7 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1867. 



Ri vula sericialis. C. $ S. no. 3029 (nee Denis). 

 Raparna usta, Butl III. Het. vii, p. 80, pi. 133, fig. 3. 

 Byturna rufifascia, Hmpm. III. Het. viii, p. 100, pi. 148, fig. 6. 



Ochreous brown. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial indis- 

 tinct waved lines and black 

 speck at lower angle of cell ; a 

 verv ^distinct diffused pinkish 

 patch beyond cell and patch 

 above it on costa ; traces of a 

 submarginal waved line ; the 

 cilia pinkish. Hind wing with 

 the outer area slightly suffused 

 -Rapama digramma, <$ . |. w i tn fuscous ; the cilia usually 



pinkish. 



The form rvjlfnscm is much darker, with an oblique pinkish 

 postmedial band developed on fore wing ; the outer area suffused 

 \\ ith pink ; the hind wing dark fuscous : cucullata is pale ochreous, 



