110 NOCTUID^. 



the apex ; the lower radial from just above the lower angle of the cell. Hind wing with the 

 outer margin crenulate and produced at the third median nervule; radial from just above 

 the lower angle of the cell ; second and third medians on a short footstalk. 



Pterocyclophora pictimargo. (Plate CLXV. fig. 16.) 



Expanse 2-^^ inches. 



Female. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated with black and suffused with red-brown and 

 purple tints ; reniform ochreous white and indistinct ; an indistinct dark red waved line from 

 the costa beyond the cell, bent inwards below the cell ; a small dark red triangular spot 

 between the radials ; a straight dark red submargiaal line from below the apex, with a dark 

 bi'own waved line outside it ; the area beyond it brown, bearing a white lunulate line and a 

 white antecilial line. Hind wing yellow; an irregular brown medial band ; apostmedialdark 

 line from the radial to the inner margin ; the apical area dark brown ; the marginal area 

 marked as in the fore wing ; the red line broader and the brown line more waved. Cilia 

 of both wings chestnut-coloured and highly crenulate. Underside pale ochreous speckled 

 with brown, except the inner area of the fore wing ; a brown band from the upper angle of 

 the cell to the middle of the interno-median interspace ; a similar postmedial band from the 

 radial ; a brown line from the apex to the outer angle, obsolescent towards the apex ; a 

 submarginal series of specks. Hind wing with these markings repeated. 



OPHIUSINyE. 



Melipotis cyllaria, Cram., var. fusifera, Jl'/L (Plate CLXV. fig. 20.) 



Acha;a fusifera, ITM-. Cat. xiv. p. J:5'JS. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Head and thorax pale brown ; palpi ringed with black ; collar and patagia streaked with 

 black ; abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing pale brown, the veins slightly streaked with black ; 

 some slight black streaks in the interspaces towards outer mai'gin ; more prominent subapical 

 streaks, and very strongly developed streaks on the inner area; an oblique double dentate 

 line from the outer margin at second median nervule to the inner margin ; traces of ante- 

 medial and postmedial curved lines. Hind wing fuscous, with a waved medial white band, a 

 submarginal spot between the first and second median nervulcs ; white marginal and cilial 

 jjatchcs at apex aud towards an;il angle. Underside similar to that of the typical form. 



Ansa filipalpis, JV//;. (Plate CLXV. fig. f 1.) 

 Ansa filipalpis, WU,: Cat. xv. [i. IT^il. 



Expanse 1§ inch. 



3Iale. Head and thorax dark reddish brown ; palpi ochreous brown below and at apex ; 



