96 NOCTUID.E. 



outlined smoky band from the costa near the apex to the centre of the inner margin^ with a 

 lunulate black line beyond it ; some black strigse from the costa j the orbicularj reniform, and 

 smoky bands outlined in black ; some black marks on the outer margin, one near the outer 

 angle being conspicuous. Hind wing smoky ochraceous, crossed by two indistinct waved 

 lines ; outer margin fuscous ; some black mai-ginal specks ; cilia whitish. Underside : fore 

 wing fuscous, with some black and white marks on the costa before the middle : hind wing 

 whitish irrovated with black and crossed by medial and postmedial waved lines; outer margin 

 fuscous ; a black marginal line. 



ACONTIINjE. 



Naranga pallida. (Plate CLXII. fig. 13.) 



Expanse | inch. 



Female. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochrcous. Fore wing pale ochreous, with a few 

 scattered dark brown scales ; two indistinct waved dark brown lines across the outer half of 

 the cell ; a small dark spot on the inner margin just before the middle ; traces of a postmedial 

 waved dark line becoming well defined towards inner margin. Hind wing ochreous white. 



Naranga albistriga. (Plate CLXII. fig. 4.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Female. Fore wing olive-brown ; a white streak in the cell from the base terminating at 

 the orbicular, which is triangular in shape and white with a brownish centre ; the outer part 

 of the cell dark brown ; an oblique line from the apex to centre of inner margin, beyond 

 which the colour is paler ; the reniform small and white with a brown centre, and with an 

 indistinct white line from it to tlic inner margin ; a lunulate white subapical mark. Hind 

 wing and underside fuscous; the underside of hind wing suffused with grey, with an indistinct 

 cell-spot. 



Tarache albonotata. (Plate CLXII. fig. 22.) 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Female. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous, the tegulse pure white. Fore wing blackish 

 fuscous, with a large white basal patch not touching the costa or inner margin ; a similar 

 patch on the apical half of the costa, enclosing a blackish postmedial costal patch, and ex- 

 tending along the outer margin to the outer angle. Hind wing very pale fuscous. 



The white markings of the fore wing arc quite dili'ercntiy shaped from those of any other 

 species of the genus. 



Eulocastra cretacea. (Plate CLXII. fig. 17.) 

 Expanse ^.^ inch. 



Female. Chalky white. Head and collar brownish. Fore wing with waved subbasal and 

 antemedial lines, the area beyond the latter iiToratcd with grey scales ; the reniform outlined 



