114 NOCTUID.Ti:. 



palpi irrorated with black ; frons with slight lateral dark bars ; 

 tegulfE with fuscous lines near base aad at middle and dark brown 

 tips ; patagia suffused with blackish ; pectus with white mixed ; 

 fore legs streaked with bUTck ; abdomen fuscous black with some 

 white and rufous at base. Pore wing ochreous suffused Avith red- 

 brown, the base obliquely black with a leaden gloss, the costal area 

 tinged with greyish and slightly irrorated with black, the apex 

 sutfused with bluish white ; some pale yellow on outer edge of the 

 black basal area from cell to inner margin, followed by the faint 

 rufous antemedial line arising at subcostal nervure and incurved in 

 submedian interspace; orbicular represented by a rufous point, the 

 reniforra by a slight rufous lunule ; postmedial line double, arising 

 at vein 7, acutely angled outwards at vein 5, then strongly incurved, 

 cxcurved below vein 3 and submedian fold, with a faint line before 

 it angled outwards below veins 6 and 5, then oblique ; some slight 

 whitish points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line whitish 

 from costa to vein 7, then yellowish slightly defined by brown on 

 inner side, below vein 5 excurved at the veins and angled inwards 

 in the interspaces ; a series of black. points before termen except at 

 apex ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia dark brown with a fine pale 

 line at base. Hind wing whitish suffused Avith dark brown except 

 on basal and costal areas and inner area to beyond middle, the 

 terminal area yellowish tinged with rufous and with Avhitish patch 

 near tornus ; some black strise with rufous between them on inner 

 jnargin towards tornus ; a punctiform black terminal line ; cilia 

 brown with white line at base and white patch below submedian 

 fold ; the underside white, the costal area and terminal half to 

 vein 2 tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a sliglit 

 blackish discoidal lunule, waved medial line incnrved below vein 5, 

 waved postmedial line oblique below vein 5, diffused waved 

 subterminal line, series of black points just before termen, and fine 

 black terminal line. 



Hah. Be. N. Gdistea, Diuawa (Pratt), type t d in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. E^i). 34 millim. 



6334. Fffictes pratti. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 29.) 



Ligura pratti, Beth.-Baker, Nor. Zool. xiii. p. 226 (1906). 



(3" , Head and thorax white mixed with some red-brown and 

 irrorated with black ; frons with black bar above ; tegulte with 

 slight medial brown line; pro- and metathoracic crests tipped with 

 blackish ; tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen with the 3rd and 4th 

 segments and two terminal segments dorsally suffused with brown, 

 with dorsal series of small black spots and subventral series of 

 points. Fore wing white irrorated with black, some rufous suffusion 

 at base of costa, an oblique black bar from base of costa, and blackish 

 subbasal mark on vein 1 ; antemedial line black, double towards 

 costa, slightly incurved at subcostal nervure and excurved at median 

 nervure, then oblique, some rufous sufiusion beyond it above vein 1 ; 



