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NOCTUIDiE. 



brown irrorated with grey, the orbicular defined by wliitish, obliqua 

 U-shaped, the stigma below the cell defined by white, oblique 

 V-shaped with its lower extremity slightly bent outwards, the 

 reniform narrow and oblique above and angled outwards on median 

 nervure ; postmedial line white defined by red-brown, slightly on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 5 ; 

 subterminal line white defined oil inner side by rufous suffusion, 

 slightly incurved at diseal fold and incurved below vein 3, the area 

 beyond it rufous toAvards apex and at middle ; a red-brown tenninal 

 line defined on inner side by a fine white line from apex to vein 3 ; 

 cilia rufous at apex and middle. Hind wing whitish suffused "with 

 purplish brown, an indistinct diffused incurved postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal line ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside 

 ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown, the diffused lines 

 more distinct. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, tyj^e f d in CoU. Pilngeler. JExp. 

 40 millim. 



Sect. IV. Antennaa of male ciliated. 



A. Abdomen of male with more oi" less developed lateral tufts of long hair 

 towards extremity. 

 a. Hind tarsi of male witli a comb of long spines at right angles to the 

 tarsus on inner side of basal half of 1st joint. 

 a^. Hind tibiae of male fringed with very long hair above; the anal 

 tufts large. 

 a^. Hind tarsi of male with the basal joint fringed with long hair 

 above. 



8278. Phytometra chalcopasta. 



Plusia clialcopa&ia, Hmpsn. J, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. p. 1225 (1912). 

 Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey ; antennse 



Fig. 118. — Phytometra chalcopasta, (^. i. 



ringed with white ; tegulse tipped with white ; patagia with an 

 oblique white line near base ; the dorsal crest tipped with white ; 



