522 NocruiD^. 



faintly defined by brown and with dark points above and below ; 

 a slight waved medial line, excurved beyond (he cell ; postmedial 

 line slight, dark, waved, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique ; 

 the terminal area brighter red-brown with a faint waved dark 

 subterminal line ; a series of minute black points before termen ; 

 cilia pale brownish ochreous, dark brown towards tornus. Hind 

 Aving fnscous black-brown, greyish towards base and inner margin ; 

 a narrow oblique white band from vein 6 just beyond middle to 

 above tornus ; a white spot at apex and larger spot on termen at 

 discal fold ; an oblique whitish subterminal bar in submedian 

 interspace; cilia with fine whitish line at base, white tips on apical 

 half, wholly white at the terminal spot. Underside greyish 

 suff'used with brown ; fore wing Avith some fuscous suffusion in 

 submedian interspace, discoidal hmule, curved postmedial line 

 except on inner area with a large patch of black suff'usion beyond 

 it at middle ; hind wing with indistinct medial line excurved beyond 

 the cell, then oblique, and waved postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing purplish red-brown. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing suffused with fuscous ; a greyish apical patch 

 on apical costal area. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with waved black marks on the antemodial 

 line, on outer part of medial area and at middle of postmedial area. 



Hah. Ma.da.ga.scar; Assam, Shillong (i^f«yZi/i/7,s), 1 S ; Bombay, 

 Kaiiara ( Ward), 1 $ ; Burma, Irrawaddy R., Sheemagar 

 ( Carpenter), 1 § ; Malacca Straits, at sea {Meade- Waldo), 1 5 , 

 Bintang I. (NihoU), 1 $ ; Singapore {Ridley), 3 cT , 7 $ ; Borneo, 

 at sea {Meade- Waldo), 1 5) Sandakan {Pri/er), 1 $; Java 

 (Horsfield), 1 $ , Canmata I. {Nicoll), 1^,1$; Celebks {Pfeiffer), 

 1 J ty 'Qb fasciculiites ; Dutch N. Guinea, Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley 

 {Pratt), 1 $ , Snow Mts., Oetakwall. {Meek), 1 J ; Br. N. Guinea, 

 Ekeikei {Pratt), 2 $ , Mt. Kebea {Pratt), 2d, 1 $ , Babooni 

 {PraM), 1 $; New Hebrides, Vate, 1 J ; Australia, type in 

 Banksian Coll.; Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 2 J ; N.Aus- 

 tralia, Port Darwin {Backland), 1 c? , 1 2 ; Loyalty Is., Lifu 

 {Marshall), 1 5; Friendly Is., Yavdu {Eclij)se Exp.), 4 c? . Exp. 

 02-80 millim. 



7650. Achsea mercatoria. 



Hoctiia mercatoria, Fabr. Syst. Eut. p. 601 (1775). 



Noctua melicerta, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 96, pi. B2. ff. C, D (1779), nee 



Drury. 

 Noctua vulpina, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. .39 (1794); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 495. 

 Ackcsa 1710, Hiibn. Verz. p. 269 (1827). 

 Achcea accelerans, Wlk. xiv. 1401 (1868). 

 AchcBCi serva, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 164, pi. 109, ff. 4, 4 a, 6 (1884), 



nee Fabr. 

 Dt/sgonia violaceofascla, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 469, f. 196 (1891). 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; paljji, antenntB, pectus, and legs 

 grey-brown ; abdomen grey- brown, the ventral surface darker 



