56 NOCTUIDJi:.— OETHOSIID.^. 



TEIPHJENA, Ochs. 



TriphsEiia fuscicoUis. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 4.) 



Nearest to T. fimbria. The primaries a little broader, pale reddish clay-coloured; the 

 costa aud basal two thirds smeared with brassy bronze, two divergent slender grey lines 

 limiting the central area, the inner line oblique, the outer transverse, slightly incurved 

 towards costa ; a rounded black spot at the posterior fourth of the outer line ; a marginal 

 series of blackish dots and a slender undulated deep ochreous line at base of fringe : 

 secondaries bright ochreous, basi-costal area brassy ; a zigzag abbreviated black band 

 running obliquely from the second subcostal to the submedian vein ; a tapering series of six 

 subcoufluent black spots close to oviter margin from first subcostal to first median branch : 

 head and collar deep chocolate-brown ; thorax grey, shining ; abdomen testaceous, with 

 greyish lateral and anal tufts. Wings below ochreous, the costal and external areas suffused 

 with brownish grey : primaries with a broad triangular blackish patch forming a broad belt, 

 with straight outer edge, from costal vein to near the inner margin ; marginal dots and fringe 

 as above : secondaries with a black dot at end of cell aud a black band as above, but continued 

 as a straight tapering stripe to costal vein ; fringe grey, with a yellow basal line : body below 

 brownish grey. Expanse of wings 55 millira. 



Dharmsala; at sugar in July. 



"A very rare species. The only pair taken in three years' pretty constant sugaring in 

 the same place and thirteen years' collecting in the district." — Hocking. 



T. fuscicoUis is the only species of the genus which has the head and collar deep brown 

 and in w hich the baud of the secondaries does not form a broad external border. 



01lTnOSIID.E. 



SEMIOPHORA, Steph. 



Semiophora orthosioides. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Upperside smoky cinereous ; pattern very similar to Orthosia lota of Europe, excepting 

 that the submarginal whitish line is still more regular and, instead of having a I'cd inner 

 edging, shows only three or four small spots of this colour at intervals ; the fringe also is 

 considerably wider, the thorax darker and the abdomen paler. The colouring in many 

 examples is much paler than in the type and resembles that of Orthosia Mndennanni, but 

 still with the same straight submarginal whitish line edged with red spots. The under 

 surface, again, resembles that of 0. lota. Expanse of wings 2'J inillim. 



iSIundi; at sugar in March. 



Evidently a common species. 



