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Head, thorax and abdomen ochreous ; sides of palpi and frons black, teguke 

 with black medial line and black and grey tips ; patagia with some black scales 

 on upper edge, metathoracic crest black, legs striated with blackish. Forewing 

 ochreous slightly irrorated with black, a slight black streak in base of sub- 

 median fold; median nervure and base of vein 4 more or less prominently white, 

 with a slight diffused black fascia above and below median nervure, then from 

 lower angle of cell oblique to termen at vein 6 ; antemedial line sometimes 

 represented by black marks above and below median nervure, orbicular and 

 reniform represented by black points or small spots in cell above origin of vein 

 2 and at lower angle ; traces of a highly dentate postmedial line with two 

 series of black points on it, the inner in the interspaces, the outer on the 

 veins oblique below vein 4, sometimes quite obsolete ; a terminal series 

 of black points, usually prominent ; cilia intersected with fuscous, Hindwing 

 white tinged with ochreous, the terminal area with brown ; a terminal series 

 of black points ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous. 



Habitat.— Formosa ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, Kangra Valley, Simla ; 

 Madras ; S. B. Borneo. Exp. 28-36 mill. 



B. Mid tibiae of male normal. 



a. Coxae of male with fringes of scales and hair ; abdomen with paired 

 sublateral fans of large scales, the anal tuft large. 



1911. Oirphis loreyi, insert (syns). 



Noctua caricis, Treit. Schmett, Eur. X., 2, p. 91 (1835). 



Leucania curvula, Wlk., IX, 102 (1856). 



and del. Leucania tenebrifera and Leucania albistigma. 



b. Legs of male normal. 



a 1 . Abdomen of male with paired ventral tufts of 



long hair from base. 

 a 1 . Underside of wings of male clothed with 



silvery scales. 

 a''. Hindwing of male on underside with the ex- 

 tremity of veins 8 to 3 clothed with 

 long downturned hair. 



1890. a. CiKi'mS LANIATA. 



& 3 . Hindwing of male on underside without 

 downturned hair on veins 8 to 3. 

 a 4 . Forewing with dark streaks in interspaces 



of terminal area. 

 a 5 . Forewing with the costal area paler 



than ground colour. 

 a 6 . Forewing with black streak below 



base of cell inframicans* 



b*. Forewing with rufous streak below 



base of cell hamifera. 



