20 NOCTUID^.. 



Ab. 1. Tore wing with the medial vvliite band very narrow and 

 not extending above median nervure. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the medial band bright yellow. 



Hah. S. France, Frey & Leech Colls. ; Spain, Leech Coll. ; 

 Italy ; Austria, Carniola ; Dalmatia ; Greece, Merlin Coll. ; 

 Gold Coast, Ashanti, 1 6 , Kiimasi (Whiteside), 1 $ ; S. Nigeria, 

 Old Calabar {CocJchurn), 1 J, 2 $, Ilesha {Hwifrey), 1 $ ; 

 Congo, Opobo (llarsden), 1 cJ ; Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru (Betfon), 

 1 (S , Nairobi {Craioshay), 1 S] Uganda, Wadelai {Mmin PasJia), 



1 $ ; Br. C. Africa, Fort Magnire (Neave), 1 $ , Fort Magoche 

 {Neave), 1 $, Blantyre (JSfeave), 1 cj" , Lr. Shire Valley {Neave), 



2 2 ; N.E. Ehodesia, Lr. Loangwa K. (JSfeave), 1 <5 ; Mashona- 

 LAND, Salisbmy (Ifarshall), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Bechuanaland, Lake 

 N'Gami (Lngarcl), 1 S; Transvaal, Pretoria (Distant), 1 S ; 

 Natal, Durban (Burrows, Meade-Waldo, Leigh), 3 J , 2 5 ; Cape 

 Colony, Plettenburg Bay (Trimen), 1 S; Farquhar Is. (B. 

 Fletcher), 1 J ; Armenia; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; Persia; 

 Formosa, Takow ( Hob son), 1 (5 ; W. China, Washan (Pratt), 

 1 d, Omei-shan (Pratt), 1 c? , Chmig-king (Pratt), 1 S, Chia- 

 kou-ho (Pratt), 1 $ , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 d ; Punjab (Home), 



1 5 , Almorah (Bogs), 1 2 , Allahabad, 1 § , Manpuri, 1 2 ; Sikhim 

 (Moller), 1 2 ; Assam, Silhet (Stainsforth), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Bengal, 

 Calcutta, 1 c5' ; Bombay (Leith), 2 5 ? Thanna Distr., Wangni 

 (Swinhoe), 1 $, Mhow (Sivinhoe), 1 2, Kanara (Ward), 1 c5' ; 

 Madras, Nilgiris (Hamj^soji), 2 5 ; Ceylon, Colombo (Nietner), 



2 2\ Burma, Mouhuein (Clerk), 1 $; Andamans, 1 $; Singa- 

 pore (Bidleg), 16, 1 $ ; PuLO Laut (Doliertg), 1 S ; Java 

 (Horsjteld), 1 c? , 2 $; Queensland, Geraldton (Turner), 1 6. 

 Exp. 38-52 milhm. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt & Mollis Eur. p. 281; Hffm. Raup. p. 14G, pi. 36. 

 f. 24. 



Pale bluish grey with slender yellowish lines ; two dorsal ochreous 

 yellow stripes and a lateral pale yellow stripe defined by fuscous. 

 Food-plants : P olygonum persicaria and Gistns salvifolia. 



Cocoon strong and waterproof. 



7784. Grammodes cooma. (Plate CCXXII. fig. 13.) 



Grammodes cooma, Svvinh. Cat. Het. Mns. Oxpn. ii. p. 158 (1900), 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey -brown. Fore wing grey- 

 brown ; a black patch Avith oblique inner edge before the nearly 

 erect white medial band which extends from below subcostal nervure 

 to inner margin ; medial area black from below costa to inner 

 margin ; a postmedial erect band from vein 7 to inner margin, 

 its inner part white and narrow, its outer part rufous, defined on 

 outer side by black, forming a dentate mark at vein 4 and smaller 

 mark at vein 3 ; an oblique black shade from apex to vein 7, then 

 angled outwards at vein 6 and incurved to join the black on outer 

 edge of the postmedial band ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing fuscoiTS brown ; an oblique white band from co.'^ta before 



