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striga from costa ; a rather diftused sinuous black streak in submedian fold 

 from base to the antemedial line which is double, the lines widely separated 

 towards costa, oblique, waved, with black point on the outer line at sub- 

 median fold with white streak from it to the medial line ; orbicular rather 

 quadrate, extending to the antemedial line and defined on outer side by 

 an oblique black striga ; reniform large, rather quadrate, incompletely 

 defined by black except above and with slight dark lunule on inner side of 

 centre : a slight dark patch at middle of costa and brownish line from cell 

 to inner margin angled outwards at vein 1 ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with whitish lunules, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, crossed by a black streak in submedian 

 fold from medial to subterminal lines, some brown sufiusion beyond it in 

 discal and submedian folds ; subterminal line found by ill-defined white 

 lunules ; some slight black strise on termen defined by whitish lunules. 

 Hindwing whitish suffused with pale red-brown ; an indistinct postmedial 

 line defined on outer side by whitish ; the underside white tinged with red- 

 brown, the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a 

 brownish patch on middle of costa, slight discoidal spot and diftused post- 

 medial line, oblique and waved to vein 5, then incurved. 



ah. 1. Greyer and irrorated with dark-brown; forewing with the white 

 lunules on postmedial line smaller and less distinct. Travancore. 



Habitat. — Travancore, Pirmad ; Ceylon, Pundaluoya. E.vp. cJ 38 ; $ 

 42 mill. 



1818. ACRONYCTA PRXJINOSA. 



Acronycta jincinosa, Guen. Noct. 1, p. 53 (1852); Hmpsn., Cat. 



Lep. Phal. B. M. viii, p. 91, pi. 125, f. 10. 

 PoUa soluta, Wlk., xxxiii. 723 (1865). 



1696. ACRONYCTA RXJMICIS. 



Noctua rumicis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x., p. 516 (1758) ; Esp. 

 Schmett. iv, pi. 17, ft'. 7-9 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f , 9 

 Err. Neue Beit., pi. 543 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., iii 

 p. 42 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi, p. 241, pi. 88, f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep.' 

 Pal., p. 133. 

 Acronycta salicis, Curt. Brit. Ent., v. pi. 136 (1829). 

 „ diffusa, Wlk. xi, 708 (1857). 

 „ indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 1 47. 

 „ turanica, Stand., Stett Ent. Zeit., 1888, p. 65 ; id. Rom. 



Mem. v., pi. 8, f. 6. 

 „ alnoides, Grest, Allg. Zeit. Ent., viii, p. 310 (1903). 

 Sect. II. (Trirena). — Thorax clothed with hair like scales mixed with a few 



scales. 

 A. Forewing with the orbicular and reniform conjoined 

 by a black streak. 



