ii 90 NOCTtriD.B. 



b'' . Fore wirg with the lower extremity of 

 renifbrm not produced to a point, 

 a*. Fore wing black-brown with a 



greyish gloss aira. 



b^. Fore wing fuscous irrorated with 



grey ; microdei 



c®. Fore wing grey with dark irroration. 

 a^. Fore wing with short black 

 streaks before middle of sub- 

 terminal line airisquamata. 



P. Fore wing without black streaks 

 before middle of subterminal 



line crt/phtea. 



d^. Fore wing pale rufous slightly ir- 

 rorated with grey. 



o9. Tegnlae black at base heterngama. 



h^. Tegulae not black at base monochroa. 



l^. Fore wing with small white spot in 

 centre of reniform. 

 ci' . Fore wing without terminal series of 



small white spots adelphodea. 



h" . Fore wing with terminal series of small 



white spots leucosticfa. 



c^. Fore wing with the reniform a black 

 lunule produced at lower extremity. 

 a'. Fore wing grey tinged with rufous ... inferferens. 

 b'' . Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous . flexirena. 

 d^. Fore wing with the reniform slight, dark. 

 a' . Fore wing fuscous grey irrorated with 



black adelc/pa,. 



V . Fore wing tinged with brown. 



as. Fore wing with the orbicular a 

 whitish point defined by fuscous. 

 a?. Fore wing with the postmedial 



line not incurved at discal fold . nycteris. 

 b^. Fore wing with the postmedial 



line incurved at discal fold basisiicha. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular ill- 

 deflned, dark, 

 a". Fore wing ochreous tinged with 



red-brown strioJata. 



/;'. Fore wing greyish ochreous acallis. 



c^. Fore wing with the orbicular absent 7nelanographa. 



4053. Ariathisa tortisigna. (Plate CXXXI. fig, 27.) 



Ochropleura tortinigna, Wlk. x. 409 (1856). 

 Xitocris epiplecta, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 6 (1868). 

 Agroiis costcilis, Wlk. Char. I/ep. Het. p. 69 (1869). 

 Agrotis anti-poda, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 21 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi whitish with blackish patch 

 at sides ; irons whitish below, blackish above ; tegulae reddish 

 yellow at tips ; metathorax with blackish patch ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with red-brown, ventrally irro- 

 rated with brown. Fore .wing red-brown suflfused with purplish to 



