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NOCTUIDJE. 



2990. Britha biguttata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1147. 



Herminia incertalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1518 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. 

 ix, pi. 166, tig. 21. 



Head and thorax clothed with grey and red-brown scales ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Fore wing clothed with grey and red-brown 

 scales ; an oblique antemedial rufous line angled below costa ; a 

 similar sinuous indistinct medial line ; a prominent postmedial line 



Yig.te.Brithabiguttata, tf. |. 



with pale outer edge ; a straight oblique rufous and pale line from 

 apex ; the outer margin rufous ; fine marginal and cilial pale lines. 

 Hind wing fuscous, the medial outer area grey and brown, 

 crossed by a short rufous and pale line ; fine marginal and cilial 

 lines. 



Hob. N. China; Ceylon; Java; Australia; New Britain. Evp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus ORTHOZONA, nov. 



Type, 0. quadrilineata, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim ; Nagas. 



$ . Palpi with the 2nd joint porrect, of moderate length, and 

 fringed with hair above, the 3rd upturned and naked ; a short 

 sharp frontal tuft ; antenna} minutely ciliated ; thorax and abdo- 

 men smoothly scaled ; tibiae not hairy. Fore wing with the apex 

 nearly rectangular ; vein 3 from before angle of cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 4 and 5 from angle of cell ; 3 from before the angle. 



2991. Orthozona quadrilineata, Moore. Lep. Atk. p. 193; a & S. 

 no. 2968. 



$ . Head, thorax, and ab- 

 domen fuscous brown. Fore 

 wing pale reddish grey- 

 brown, with indistinct 

 waved ante- and postmedial 

 rufous lines ; a rufous speck 

 in cell ; an indistinct reni- 

 forra stigma ; prominent 

 oblique medial and sub- 

 tnargina] rufous lines. Hind wing pale fuscous, with indistinct 

 antemedial line and prominent submarginal rufous line from below 

 costa to near anal angle. 



Ual. Sikhim ; Nagas. Exp. 40 millim. 



Fig. 45. Orthozona yttadrilineata, . 



