1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 347 



Genus Mamestra, Ochs. 



Mamestra culta, n. sp. 



Fore wing dark purple-brown or plum-colour, suffused with grey, 

 crossed by a subbasal and an antemedian black double zigzag line, 

 an indistinct discal series of black points, a submargiual black- 

 bordered yellow-speckled dentated line, and a marginal row of 

 dentate lunules; orbicular and reniform spots black-bordered; a 

 black luuule below the cell ; the posterior end of subbasal line, the 

 lunule below the cell, the posterior end of reniform spot, and the 

 tuft near base of posterior margin streaked with pure yellow : hind 

 wing and abdomen pale greyish purple-brown. Thorax, palpi, and 

 legs dark purple-brown, grey-speckled ; a black collar across thorax. 



Expanse 2-J- inches. 



Hab. Dalhousie, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



Mamestra stoliczkjE. 



Mamestra stoUczkcB, Felder, Novara Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 109. fig. 32 

 (1872). 



Male and Female. Fore wing dusky olive-green, crossed by a 

 subbasal, an antemedian, a postmedian, and a submaiginal black- 

 bordered sinuous grej line ; discal area and outer margin also grey ; 

 orbicular and reniform spots grey- and black-bordered ; a black- 

 speckled mark below the cell ; three white or pale spots on costal 

 edge before the apex, and a marginal black-pointed lunular line : 

 hind wing cinereous olive-brown, palest at the base. Thorax dusky 

 olive-green, grey- and black-speckled; palpi and legs brown, grey- 

 and black-speckled ; legs with pale bauds. 



Expanse 1|- inch. 



Hab. Dalhousie, N.W. Himalaya ; Sind valley, Kashmir. In 

 coll. F. Moore, 



Nearest to M. serratilinea, and quite a distinct species from M. 

 brassictB, which latter also occurs in the N.W. Himalayas. 



Genus Prospalta, Walker. 



Prospalta leucospila. 



Prospalta leucospila. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. III4 

 (1857). 



Female. Nearest to P. stellata. Diifers in the fore wing being 

 of a blacker brown, and having the white spots within the cell larger, 

 the central (or orbicular) spot not broken up, the reniform cluster 

 more widely spread, the second cluster below it being obsolete ; the 

 costal, discal, exterior margin, and cilial spots are also larger ; there 

 is also a distinct white spot below the orbicular, and some spots on 

 middle of posterior margin ; cilia of fure wing with two rows of 

 white spots, the cilia of hind wing with one row and an outer border. 

 Thorax, palpi, and legs blackish brown ; palpi and legs speckled and 

 banded with white, the thorax with white speckles and a large lower 

 dorsal spot. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hah, Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore. 



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