84 NOCTDIDiE. 



6296. Phlegetonia atripars, n. sp. (Plate CLXXYI. fig. 6.) 



Head and thorax ochreons suffused with rufous ; palpi with the 

 2nd joint above except towards tip and the base of 3rd joint black ; 

 te"'ulse with two dark medial lines ; nactathoracic crest dark at 

 tips ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen with dorsal blackish 

 brown patch on three basal segments and dorsal black spots on 2nd 

 to 5th segments. Fore wing ochreous mostly suffused with rufous, 

 the base and basal half of medial area suffused wir-h black ; 

 subbasal line double, from costa to subracdian fold ; two double, 

 curved, waved antemedial lines ; orbicular ochreous white defined by 

 black, minute, round ; reniform large, ochreous with some rufous 

 in centre and defined by black on inner side; medial line brown, 

 nrising at upper extremity of reniform, excurved to vein 5, then 

 oblique, sinuous ; two double postmedial lines, dentate and produced 

 to points at the veins, excurved from costa to vein 5, then incurved, a 

 black streak from the inner to subterminal line above vein 5, the 

 outer part of outer line not dentate below vein 5 ; a quadrate 

 blackish patch with three white points at costa on costal area before 

 the subterminal line, which is whitish defined on inner side by 

 slight blackish marks between veins 7 and 4, angled .outwards at 

 vein 7, then slightly waved and excurved at middle, the area 

 beyond it blackish at middle and tornus ; a fine crenulate black 

 terminal line ; cilia pale rufous and blackish. Hind wing ochreous 

 white, the terminal half suffused with reddish brown, traces of 

 waved whitish postmedial and subterminal lines ; some black stria3 

 at inner margin towards tornus ; a fine black terminal line inter- 

 rupted by pale points at the veins ; cilia ochreous at base, blackish 

 at tips ; the underside ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with black, a black discoidal spot, slightly crenulate medial line 

 excurved beyond the cell, double crenulate postmedial line with 

 another waved line just beyond it between veins 6 and 4, and 

 terminal series of black points. 



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*6297. Phlegetonia mediofusca. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 7.) 



Eutelia tnediofusca, Eeth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 228 (1906). 



(5' , Head rufous mixed with white and black ; palpi black at 

 extremity of 1st joint, at base and extremity of 2nd joint, the 

 extremity of 3rd joint black and white ; autennse blackish ; thorax 

 rufous ; pectus and legs rufous mixed with whitish and black ; 

 abdomen grey mixed with black and some rufous. Fore wing with 

 the basal costal area blackish with black points on its outer edge 

 below costa and in and below cell, followed by the indistinct waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial area greyish 

 to the double black antemedial line with oblique white striga at 

 costa, ajigled outwards below costa and above inner margin and 



