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b. Forewing without dark streak in submedial inter- 

 space between ante and postmedian lines. 

 a 1 . Forewing with the orbicular narrow and rounded . 

 rr. Forewing without whitish lunule on outer 



edge of reniform . . . . . . xodalU. 



Ir. Forewing with small whitish lunule on outer 



edge of reniform . . . . . . funerea. 



I>\ Forewing with the orbicular rounded. . . . boopis. 



B. Forewing without dark streak below base of 

 cell. 

 a. Forewing with large whitish lunule on outer edge 



of reniform. . . . . . . . . . leucostigma. 



h. Forewing with white points on outer edge of reni- 

 form . . . . . . . . . . purpurina. 



1710<7. Pakastichtis stbjgidisca. 



Apamea striyidisca, Moore, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 346, pi. 38, f. 9. Hmpsn., 

 Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 92, pi. 110, f. 3. 



9 . Head and thorax greyish tinged with rufous and mixed with some 

 dark-brown and black ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen greyish 

 suffused with brown. Forewing greyish ochreous and rufous, the basal half 

 suffused with black except the inner margin, the terminal area blackish 

 except at apex ; subbasal line double, black filled in with rufous, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold: antemedial line double, indistinctly filled in 

 with rufous, angled outwards below costa, oblique to submedian fold, then 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform large, indistinctly defined by black ; 

 orbicular rufous defined by black at sides, oblique elliptical : reniform 

 ochreous white defined by black on inner side and below and slightly by 

 brown on outer, somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; and with 

 irregular outer edge ; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to below 

 cell ; the area beyond the reniform rufous to postmedial line which is blackish 

 defined on outer side by ochreous, slightly bent outwards below costa then 

 very minutely waved, oblique to vein 5, inwardly oblique to below angle of 

 cell and sinuous to inner margin ; postmedial area ochreous suffused with 

 rufous and brown on costal half, the veins with slight dark streaks, the 

 costa with pale points ; subterminal line ochreous defined on inner side by 

 brown suffusion, angled outwards to near termen at veins 7, 4'3; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia blackish with a fine ochreous line at base. 

 Hindwing fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous white with a slight dark line 

 through them. Underside of both wings ochreous, the costal areas tinged 

 with rufous to postmedial line which is nearly straight on forewing, minutely 

 waved on hindwing ; a broad fuscous subterminal band, forewing with small 

 discoidal lunule, hindwing with small annules. 

 Habitat.— Sikhim. Exp. J 42, $ 50 mill- 



