Genera and Species of Noctuida\ ;I7,5 



L-iOH*?. Eliisa nstula^ pp. n. 



Head and thorax rufous tinged with whitish ; antennal 

 vesicU» of male dark brown ; pectus and legs dark brown, 

 the tarsi with slight pale rings ; hitid tibiaj with the fringe 

 of hair tinged with purplish red; abdomen rufous, dorsally 

 tinged with dark brown. Fore wing glossy rufous with some 

 (lark brown irroration, especially on basal area and costal 

 lialf of medial area; an indistinct subbasal line, delined by 

 ])ale rufous on outer side, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, filled in with pale rufous, waved, 

 erect ; orbicular represented by a faint minute pale spot 

 dctined by dark brown ; rcniform with brownish centre and 

 very indistinct pale aunulus constricted at middle ; an in- 

 distinct slightly waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, strongly 

 incurved below vein 3, and bent outwards at vein 1 ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of small ill-detineddark 

 spots with some whitish scales on their outer edge; a ter- 

 minal series of dark strife with slight whitish points at the 

 veins ; cilia red-brown with a fine whitish line at base, 

 lliiid wnng pale glossy red-brown; cilia whitish with a 

 slight brown line near base; the underside whitish suffused 

 with red-brown. 



Uab. Malay Pen., Kuala Lumpur {Durham)^ 2 ^ type, 

 ^nw^ke'x (Robinson) , 1 (^ , Patani {Robinson), 1 ?; Singa- 

 pore {Ridley), 1 (5* , 1 ? ; Borneo, Sarawak {IVallace), 1 ^ , 

 3 ? ; Java, Arjuno {Doherty), 1 6 . Exp. 18-22 mm. 



1208 A. Elusa mediorufa, sp. n. 



6 . Head and thorax rufous tinged with whitish ; tarsi 

 ringed with wliite ; abdomen greyish suffused with brown, 

 the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing glossy greyish irrorated 

 with rufous, the antemedial area bright rufous from costa to 

 submedian fold, the costa rufous ; traces of a curved rufous 

 antemedial line ; a rufous medial line oblique below the 

 cell ; orbicular absent ; rcniform represented by two minute 

 brown spots faintly defined by whitish; postmedial line 

 rufous slightly defined by whitish on outcj' side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique and in- 

 curved between veins 3 and 1, some whitish points be^'ond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, slightly 

 defined by rufous on inner side, incurved at discal and sub- 

 median folds and excurved to term^n at middle, some whitish 

 beyond it at apex and rufous at discal and submedian folds ; 



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