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2450a, Melifotis cailino, Lef, Ann, S, Liun,, Paris 1827, p. 94, 

 pi. 5., f. i. 



Head whitish ; antennae black ; thorax grey suffused with black ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with fuscous. Forewing with the base grey ; a short sub basal 

 black line with a short streak from its lower extremity below the cell ; an 

 antemedial black line sinuous and oblique from costa to submedian fold 

 where it is angled, the area between it and the subbasal line blackish ; the 

 medial area grey-brown, whitish towards costa on outer side of antemedial 

 line ; the postmedial line very strongly excurved beyond the cell, angled at 

 veins 6 and 4, and incurved between those points, then very strongly 

 retracted to lower angle of cell and sinuous to inner margin ; a black line on 

 discocellulars with some dentate white marks beyond it in the sinus of the 

 postmedial line, the area beyond it blackish to the subterminal line which is 

 angled outwards at vein 6 and excurved at middle ; the terminal area grey. 

 Hind wing white suffused with fuscous ; a dark discoidal lunule with a 

 white patch beyond it ; a white patch on termen at vein 2 ; cilia white with 

 a black patch at middle. Underside of forewing with the basal half whitish, 

 the terminal half fuscous with a white patch beyond the cell ; hind wing 

 white with black discoidal lunule, postmedial baud and black patch on 

 middle of termen. 



Habitat. — France ; Greece ; Armenia, Kashmir (Pilcher). Exp. 40 mill, 



2532. SerrocUs inara. Larva purplish white specked with black ; head and 

 lateral band on thoracic somite flesh colour ; a flesh-coloured band on the swol- 

 len 4th somite ^ith irregular black markings behind it ; dorsal, two lateral 

 and sublateral interrupted waved flesh-coloured fascioe on 5th to terminal 

 somite. Pupa black with purple bloom. (Fellowes Wilson). 



2535, Sympis edfibasis. The specimen figured is a 9,tlie ^ has tufts of hair 

 on extremity of 2nd joint and on 3rd joint of palpus and at base of antennae. 



25386. Baniana ^'ODA, Bwinh., A. M, N. H. (7), 3, p. 116 (1899). 



Head yellowish white, the vertex, antennfe and tegulee black ; thorax grey 

 with a purplish tinge ; abdomen fuscous, Forewing reddish brown suffused 

 with greyish purple and irrorated with black ; an antemedial black-brown 

 mark from cell to inner margin with white outline, its inner edge sinuous, 

 its outer angled on vein 1, traces of a fine line from it to costa ; a more or less 

 prominent discoidal dark lunule edged with grey ; an obscure sinuous post- 

 medial line ; some pale specks on costa towards apex ; a fine terminal series 

 of dark points. Hindwing fuscous, the cilia brown. 



Habitat. — Karwar ; Nilgiris, Exp. 38 mill. 



2545, BocuLA luto&a, insert Agrotis inconclusa, Wlk., Journ. Linn Soc. 

 Zool., vi., p. 188, Borneo which has precedence. 



2G43. Ophideres hypermnestra. Larva : ^ purplish fuscous speckled with 

 blue; irregular blackish patches, on thoracic and terminal somites ; stigmata 

 with black points ; 5th and 6th somites with large lateral black ocelli ringed 

 with red and yellow, 4th somite with lateral orange spot ; irregular yellow 

 lateral marks on 7th and 8th somites and their prolegs. 



