] 50 NOCTUJDJE, 



postmedial line double, deutate and produced to black points on the 

 veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line whitish 

 with slight black streaks before and beyond it below costa, then 

 defined on inner side by dentate black marks and on outer by 

 oblique strise, dentate to vein 3, then incurved ; a terminal black 



Fig. 51. — Stidoptcra describengf J. \. 



line interrupted by whitish points at the veins. Hind wing black= 

 brown, the lower part of cell and the interspaces below and beyond 

 it hyaline ; cilia with fine white line at base and whitish tips. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown to beyond 

 the medial line. 



Ab. 2. Pore wing with crescentic black-bro^n patch in and below 

 cell from near base to medial line. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with slightly cnrved black-brown fascia from 

 base of median nervure to termen below apex. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with fuscous black subbasal spot on median 

 nervure, antemedial spot on vein 1, spots before and beyond the 

 reniforra, and a patch at apex. 



$ . Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing greyish ochreous 

 tinged with brown, the last with a dark band before subterminal 

 line. 



Ab. 5. Thorax and fore wing suffused with white. 



Ab. 6. {xylinata). Patagia and fore wing suflused with black, the 

 latter with the terminal area pale obliquely from apex to inner 

 margin beyond middle. 



Ab. 7. Patagia and fore wing to beyond medial line ochreous 

 yellow. 



Ab. 8. Similar to ab. 2 of d*. 



Ab. 9. Similar to ab. 3 of g? • 



Ab. 10, Similar to ab, 4 of S . 



Hah. PoMBAT, Kanara ( Ward), 1 $ tj-pe xylinata ; Teavakgoee, 

 Pirmad (Imray), 1 $ ; Ceylon {Templeton), 1 cT type, Haldamulla 

 (Madv'ood), 1 J; Sikgapoee (MdJey), 10 c?, 26 $; Christmas I. 

 (Andretves), 1 J, 1 $; Celebes; Pe. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 

 1 J , 1 $ , Mt. Ivebca {Pratt), 1 <S . E-x_i>. 34-46 millim. 



