410 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [Nov. 5, 
Hab. Sattara, June 1884; Poon, June and July 1887. Many 
examples taken. 
From other described species this may be distinguished by the two 
peculiar black bands on the fore wing, the inner band being wavy 
and the outer band erect. 
NOCTUES. 
ACONTIIDS. 
ACONTIA KARACHIENSIS, 0. sp. 
Male. Antenne grey, body above and below pure white; fore 
wings white, costa with some grey markings, a greyish-brown line 
which goes upwards from centre of hinder margin, then abruptly 
bends to the apex, and has an excavation downwards where the reni- 
form should be; this line has two black marks on each side of the 
excavation, and from it to the margin the wing is coloured dark 
grey; a marginal macular black line, and very broad grey fringe, 
with central and subapical white patches ; hind wings white, with a 
slight grey marginal line, a slight greyish tinge on the border, and 
a grey interline in the white fringe. 
Below : wings white and shining, with grey patches on the fringe 
of the fore wings ; legs white, tarsi with grey bands. 
Female. Differs from the male in having grey suffusions on the 
thorax and a grey abdomen; fore wings iron-grey, with the white 
showing through here and there, a white diffuse subcostal band ex- 
tending from base to tips; hind wings greyish white, with the 
border a little darker, white patches in cilia same as in male. 
Expanse of wings ¢ 3%; inch, 2 1 inch. 
Hab. Karachi, June and July 1885-6. 5 3 and 10 9 taken. 
Allied to A. costalis. Differs iu the mottled grey fore wing, 
this wing in the male baving the basal area, as well as the costal 
border, clear of markings. 
APAMEID4. 
APAMEA MINIMA, 0. sp. 
Antennze and palpi brown; head, thorax, and fore wings grey, 
with a yellowish flesh-coloured tint ; head and thorax speckled with 
brown ; fore wings suffused with greyish brown, transverse brown 
lines, subbasal and antemedian, both with a brown short longitudinal 
streak running outwardly from their centres; the subbasal line in- 
distinct, with the streak very short and also rather indistinct ; a 
discal oblique lunular brown line, the space from this to the margin 
paler than the rest of the wing; a submarginal, short, diffuse, brown 
lunular line with pale outer border from the hinder margin, stopping 
at one third from the apex, and a marginal line of black discon- 
nected lunules; fringe brown, with pale patches ; costa with brown 
marks; orbicular represented by a white dot; reniform also white, 
large, somewhat resembling the capital letter H. 
Hind wings nearly white, with a yellowish flesh-coloured tinge, and 
