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raargin ; postraeditil line double filled in willi white, bent outwards 

 Lelow costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 3 and angled out- 

 wards at vein 1, some black points bej'ond it on. costa ; subtermiual 

 line ill-defined, whitish and with slight blackish marks on its outer 

 edge, excurved below costa and at middle; a terminal series of 

 slight black lunules ; cilia chequered brown and white and with 

 slight black line through them. Hind wing whitish sutfused with 

 pale red-brown, an indistinct curved whitish postmedial line ; cilia 

 che(iuered white and ])ale brown ; the underside white irrorarcd with 

 ])ale brown, a dark discoidal spot and brownish mark on middle of 

 cofta, postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved. 

 Hab. Kashmir, Gourais Valley (Leech), 1 J , Soinde Valley (Leeclt), 

 3 d' , 1 $ , Dras {Leech), 1 c? , 1 $ , Kokser (McArthur), 2 $ , llala 

 {McArthur), 1 $ ; Punjab, ^lurrce {Manders), 1 $ type. E.vp. 36- 

 46 millim. 



3727. Acronycta metaxantlia, n. sp. (Plate CXXVI. tig. 17.) 



J . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with black band: tegulje and patagia slightly edged 

 with blackish; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous 

 suffused with rufous, the basal crest greyish, the ventral surface 

 paler. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown and thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 strige from costa and single striga from cell with somewhat curved 

 black streak from it to antemedial line, which is double, oblique, 

 waved, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; the medial 

 area with diffused blackish fascia above vein 1 ; orbicular and reni- 

 form defined by black, the former round with slight brown centre, 

 the latter suffused with brown, a dark shade from costa to reniform 

 and indistinct oblique minutely dentate line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin angled outwards on vein 1 ; postmedial line 

 double, filled in with whitish and with whitish lunule on it below 

 submedian fold, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 strongly incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa and a dark shade from it 

 to termen below vein 3 ; an indistinct greyish subtermiual line 

 slightly defined by brown on outer side, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia blackish at base, 

 chequered black and white at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow, the 

 disk rather paler, the terminal area suffused with brown from apex 

 to vein 2 and with brownish spot at vein 1 ; cilia yellowish white 

 with slight brown marks from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 

 yellowish white slightly tinged with brown, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule with brownish 

 bar from costa above it, and traces of a diffused lunulate post- 

 medial line incurved below vein 3. 



$ . Hind wing with the terminal band broader and more com- 

 plete towards tornus. 



