35G NOCTITID.H. 



Mamas, Malabar, 2 $, Calicut {Fellowes-Wihon), 1 $, Isilgiiis 

 (Ifavij)son), 2 (5, 2 5 , Tranquebar (Morris), 1 $ ; Ckylon [TemjjU- 

 ton, Lindesay), 1 d, 2 $ , Kandy (Ideade- Waldo), 1 J; Burma, 

 Moiilraein (ClerJc), 1^,1$ type cohcerens ; Andamans, 1 c^ ; 

 ? Philippines, Manila ; Java {Horsfeld), 1 J , 1 ? ■ Ea^P- 

 62-82 millim. 



Larva. Ochreous-yellow sufi'used and streaked with red-brown ; 

 the lines yellow, the dorsal line double, the subdorsal and lateral 

 lines single ; all the prolegs present. 



7467. Speiredonia sumfcana. (Plate CCX. figs, 3 J , 4 $ .) 

 Spirama sumbana, Swiiih. A. M. N. H. (7) xiv. p. 422 (1904). 



(5 . Head and thorax dark brow^n ; pectus and legs greyer browm, 

 the hair on coxte and femora faintly tinged with scarlet; abdomen 

 black-brown, the anal tuft scarlet, the ventral surface tinged wath 

 scarlet. Pore wing dark brown, the terminal area tinged witii 

 grey ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, excurved from costa to 

 median nervure, then oblique; a very large inverted comma-shaped 

 discoidal mark defined by black and the outer side of tail and 

 inner side of head by white ; medial line dark, excurved below costa, 

 passing through the head of the discoidal mark and incurved below 

 it ; dark streaks on veins 7, 6 from above the discoidal mark to 

 the postmedial, line which is oblique from cost:a to vein 7, then 

 inwardly oblique and touching the discoidal mark ; an indistinct 

 double waved subterminal line and two waved lines before termen, 

 the outer vei-y indistinct. Hind wing dark tirown, the terminal 

 area greyish. Underside of both wings brown with indistinct 

 curved medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



5 . Thorax grey-brownj ; abdomen with the 1st four segments 

 dorsally banded greyish and black, the tw^o following segments 

 Avith black patches. Pore wing grey-brown, the antemedial line 

 defined on inner side by white and with dark suffusion beyond it 

 from cell to inner margin, the discoidal mark smaller, black defined 

 by whitish, with fine ochreous annulus and some silvery blue on 

 the tail, the medial line excurved round the discoidal mark, the 

 postmedial line waved and defined on outer side by white from 

 vein 5 to inner margin, the subterminal line double and diffused 

 from vein 5 to inner margin, the two Avaved lines before ferraeii 

 distinct ; hind wing grey suffused in parts Avith dark brown, tAVO 

 diffused antemedial lines, medial line defined on outer side by 

 white, a double diffused subterminal line filled in Avith whitish and 

 two waved lines before termen. Underside of both Avings scarlet 

 AA'ith the veins brownish ; fore wing with slight dark marks in 

 middle of cell and on discocellulars ; hind Aving with dark discoidal 

 point ; both Avings with curved medial, postmedial, and subterminal 

 lines and series of dark points before termen. 



Hah. Sdmba, Waingapo, 1 cJ , 1 $ ^'V^- Exp. 58 millim. 



