410 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [NoV. 5, 



Hub. Sattara, June 1884; Poon, June and July 1887- Many 

 examples taken. 



From other described species this may be distinguished by the two 

 peculiar black bauds on the fore wing, the inner band being wavy 

 and the outer baud erect. 



NOCTUES. 



A C O X T I I D jE. 

 ACONTIA KARACHIENSIS, n. Sp. 



Male. Anteunge £;rey, body above and below pure white ; fore 

 wiugs white, costa witli some grey markings, a greyish-brown line 

 which goes upwards from centre of hinder margin, then abruptly 

 bends to the apex, and has an excavation downwards where the reui- 

 form should be ; this line has two black marks on each side of the 

 excavation, and from it to the margin the wing is coloured dark 

 grey ; a marginal macular black line, and very bioad grey fringe, 

 with central and subapical white patches ; hind wings white, with a 

 slight grey marginal line, a slight greyish tinge on the border, and 

 a grey interline in the white fringe. 



Below : wings white and shining, with grey patches on the fringe 

 of the fore wings ; legs white, tarsi with grey bands. 



Female. Differs from the male in having grey suffusions on the 

 thorax and a grey abdomen ; fore wings iron-grey, with the white 

 showing through here and there, a white diffuse subcostal band ex- 

 tending from base to tips ; hind wmgs greyish white, with the 

 border a little darker, white patches in cilia same as in male. 



Expanse of wings J j(j inch, $ 1 inch. 



Hah. Karachi, June and July 1885-6. 5 S a»d 10 $ taken. 



Allied to A. costalls. Differs iu the mottled grey fore wing, 

 this wing in the male having the basal area, as well as the costal 

 border, clear of markings. 



A P A M E I D ^. 

 Apamea minima, n. sp. 



Antennae and palpi brown ; head, thorax, and fore wings grey, 

 with a yellowish flesh-coloured tint ; head and thorax speckled with 

 brown ; fore wings suffused with greyish brown, transverse brown 

 lines, subbasal and antemedian, both with a brown short longitudinal 

 streak running outwardly from their centres ; the subbasal line in- 

 distinct, with the streak very short and also rather indistinct ; a 

 discal oblique luuular brown line, the space from this to the margin 

 paler than the rest of the wing : a submarginal, short, diffuse, brown 

 luuular line with pale outer border from the hinder margin, stopping 

 at one third from the apex, and a marginal line of black discon- 

 nected lunules ; fringe brown, with pale patches ; costa with brown 

 marks; orbicular represented by a white dot : reniform also white, 

 large, somewhat resembling the capital letter H. 



Hind wings nearly white, with a yellowish flesh-coloured tinge, and 



