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and below it ; a waved black medial line, oblique from costa to below cell ; 

 postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, oblique to 

 vein 3 near subterminal line, then incurved, with slight white points on it 

 at the veins and with pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, ochreous, defined on inner side at middle by small dentate black 

 marks and with small black spots on outer edge, somewhat angled outwards 

 at veins 7 - 6 - 4 , 3; a terminal series of black points; cilia with minute black 

 points at base followed by a dark line. Hindwing deep fuscous brown, the 

 cilia rufous ; the underside greyish tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 >brown, a black discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line and diffused subter- 

 minal band. 



Habitat. — W. China; Punjab, Ktilu, Sultanpur, Simla, Dharmsala; 

 Sikhim. Exp. 44-50 mill. 



1713 a. Trachea connivens. 



Apemea connivens, Feld, Reis. Nov. pi. 109, f . 27 (1874). 

 Agrotis quadrisigna, Moore, P. Z. S., 1881., p. 350. 



„ placida, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 117., pi. 4, f. 19 (1882). 



Head and thorax pale brownish grey slightly irrorated with fuscous : 

 palpi blackish above, tegulee with basal black points at middle and sides : 

 tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen pale brownish grey. Forewing pale 

 brownish grey slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line double, black, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved . 

 oblique ; claviform short and broad, denned by black except above ; orbi- 

 cular incompletely defined by black, somewhat elliptical ; reniform with 

 black bar on inner side and pale rufous or grey spot on outer with slight 

 points above and below it, otherwise undefined : a waved medial dark line, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 slightly bent outward below costa, then waved, oblique to vein 3 near sub- 

 terminal line, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 small pale rufous dentate marks, defined on inner side at middle by small 

 dentate black marks and on outer side by black points, somewhat angled 

 outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with pale rufous 

 line at base. Hindwing whitish tinged with fuscous especially on terminal 

 area ; cilia yellowish white ; the underside white, the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and traces of postmedial and 

 subterminal lines on costal half. 



Habitat. — Natal ; Cape Colony ; Kashmir. ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, 

 Simla, Dharmsala, Dehra Dhun ; Bengal, Calcutta. Exp. 36-48 mill. 



1713. Trachea niveiplaga. 



Hadena niveiplaga, Wlk. xi., 593 (1857). 



Mamestra terranea, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii., p. 53, pi. 127, f. 10 



(1889). 

 Bombgcia hodita, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xv., p. 6 (1895). 



