64 KOCTUID^. 



Ab. 6. expeetans. Fore wing grey-brown striated with red-brown, 

 the medial area suffused with dark brown, the antemedial spot 

 absent. 



Ab. 7. frontalis. Fore wing grey-brown or reddish brown, the 

 ante- and postmedial lines absent or obsolescent and the antemedial 

 spot absent, a brown patch on costa confluent wdth the postmedial 

 spot. 



Ab. 8. curvifera. Fore wing entirely suffused with deep choco- 

 late-browai, the lines pale and indistinct, the ante- and postmedial 

 spots absent. 



Ab. 9. Fore wing grey-brown, the medial area red-browai, the 

 lines indistinct, the spots absent. — Thursday I. 



Hob. " India," 1 S type curvifera ; Madras, Nilgiris 

 (fKamfSon), 2 2 ; Tbavancoee, Pirmad {JSIrs. Imray), 1 5 ; 

 CEYLOisr {Templetoii) , 5 cJ , 7 $ types trigonifera, curvifera, and 

 expeetans, Colombo {Nietner, Meade-TValdo\2 5 type coniplacens, 

 Kandy {Green, Meade-JVaIclo),2 6 i'^- S, Trincomali {Yerhiiry^, 

 3 ? ; Jata {Horsfield, Midler), 1 d% 1 $ , Arjuno {Boherty), 

 1 5 ; Dutch N. Gtuinea, Kapaur {Bolerty), 1 5 ; Be. N. 

 G-ui^^EA, Ekeikei {Pratt), 6 o% 5 $ , Port Moresby, 1 S , Milne 

 Bay {Meek), 1 $ ; Queensland, Thursday I. {Mafheio), 1 S ; 

 Cook's Is., Ilarotonga {J. J. Walker), 1 d" ; Society Is., Tahiti 

 (J. J. Walker), 1 $ , Eimeo I. (J. J. Walker), 1 6 . Exp. 34- 

 50 millim. 



Larva. Semper, Rei.se Pbil. Scbmett. ii. p. 562, pi. S. ff. 14, 1-5. 



Grrey ; 1st somite with pair of dorsal black spots, the 3rd to 6th 

 and 11th somites with dorsal black bars, the 11th with dorsal hump ; 

 abdominal somites with the dorsal area yellowish, the incisures 

 with black lines, the lateral area with slight black streaks and 

 more prominent streaks above the stigmata which are ringed with 

 red-brow^n, the 12th somite with i-ed-brown lateral streak and black 

 sublateral streak ; head red-brown ; the anterior pair of claspers 

 aborted and small. Food-plant, Callicarpa mcesa. 7. 



7833. Hypsetra noctuoides. 



Hypctira noctuoides, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 259 (1852) ; Hnipsn. IMoths Ind. 

 "^ii. p. 507. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown ; palpi chocolate- 

 brown, except the 3rd joint ; tarsi with pale rings ; ventral surface 

 of abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing reddish brown tinged 

 with grey and with slight dark irroration ; an oblique black sub- 

 basal bar from costa, its lower extremity produced to a slight hook 

 on outer side ; an inwardly oblique small wedge-shaped deep 

 chocolate-brown antemedial spot from costa and large lunulate spot 

 in submedian interspace slightly edged at sides by pale scales ; 

 faint traces of a curved dark medial line ; reniform a bluish grey 

 spot slightly defined by black scales, extending to below the cell 

 and rather concave on inner side ; faint traces of a dark postmedial 

 line slightly excurved below the costa and closely approximated to 



