198 K0CTUn).T5. 



includes, linnddloya, Didkoya. (Green), 7 J, 15 $. E,vjy. 30-3G 

 millim. 



6445. Nigramma longipennis, n. sp, (Plate CLXXIX. fig. IG.) 



(5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black and some 

 grey ; pectus whitish ; abdomen gi-e)' with some black scales at 

 base, tlio ventral surface tinged witli fuscous except at base. Pore 

 wing red-brown sufFased in parts with purple and with some dark 

 irroration ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; reniform 

 faintly defined by blackish ; postmedial line formed by black points, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; an indistinct 

 dentate whitish subterminal line with dark streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces ; a blackish terminal line. Hind wing semihyaline 

 yellowish white, the terminal half suffused with brown ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown ; the underside with indistinct diffused discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line, lletinaculum normal. 



Hab. Er. N. Guinea, Owgarra {Mtelc), 1 S type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



Sect. II, {Clina) Intennas of male minutely ciliated ; bind wing with slight 

 fringe of hair at base of costa. 



A. Fore win" with the inner area not bright rufous. 



a. Fore wing without purple-grey suffusion on basal and 

 inner areas. 

 «i, Fore wing without diffused whitish fascia from base 

 through the cell to termeu, 

 ft'. Fore wing not white tinged with olive, 

 ft'. Fore wing with the medial line sinuous. 



a*. Fore wing dark brown mixed with purplish 



ft'. Fore wing with more or less distmct green- 

 ish white patch at middle of yein 1 fjjrahidcs. 



h^. Fore wing without greenish white patch at 

 middle of vein 1. 

 ft®. Fore wing without small dentate black 



marks before subterminal lino mhfascicda, 



h^. Fore wing with small dentate black 



marks before subterminal line todara. 



6'. Fore wing red-brown or ochreous in tone ... polyniorj)}ia, 

 P. Fore wing with the medial line straight, erect ; 



colour pale clay -brown lapidaria. 



J2. Fore wing white tinged with olive ijerligncalis. 



b^. Fore wing with diffused whitish fascia from base 



through the cell to termen dialeuca. 



b. Fore wing with purple-grey suffusion on basal and inner 



areas jnirpurascens, 



B. Fore wing with the inner area bright rufous albicans, 



6446. Nigramma pyraloides. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 17.) 



Chuduca 'pi/raloides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 165 (1864); 



Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 93. 

 Gyrtona albodentaia, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 165 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Mollis 



Ind. ii. p. 403. 

 Lophoplcra kheill, Pag. JB. Nass. Ver. xxxviii. p. 30, pi. 1. f. 3 (1885). 



