NIGRA JIJIA. 199 



. Head and thorax fu'icous brown mixed with purplish grey, the 

 (egulye and dorsum of thorax often with rufous mixed, the teguke 

 with block medial line ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing fuscous brown with 

 a purplish grey gloss ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, dentate, a rufous point on it in 

 cell ; medial line minutely waved ; a more or less distinct diffused 

 greenish white patch at middle of vein 1 ; rcniforni faintly defined 

 by blackish, usually wnth rufous point in centre ; postmedial line 

 formed by slight dentate black marks with greyish lunules on their 

 inner side, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, 

 some minute white points beyond it on costa and a dentate blackish 

 line ; subterminal line white slightly defined on outer side by 

 black, minutely dentate ; a terminal series of small black spots 

 defined on inner side by whitish. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 interspaces of basal halt whitish; cilia with fine white line at base 

 and whitish tips. 



Ifa^). Assam, Khiisis, 1 J , 1 5 tyite alhodentata \ Singapore 

 (Riillci/), 11 J, 16 $; Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), type t in 

 Mus. Oxon. ; Nias. E.ijj. 26-28 millim. 



6447. Nigramma suMasciata. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 18.) 



Oiliora stihfasciata, Wlk. sxxiii. 907 (1865) ; Hiiipsn. Moths Iiicl. ii. 

 p. 405. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey, the tegulae at 

 tips and prothorax with a black or rufous patch ; pectus whitish ; 

 tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdoraea grey-brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Pore wing fuscous brown mixed with grey ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, sinuous ; medial line indistinct, curved ; 

 rcuiforra faintly defined by fuscous and with tuft of white and 

 rufous scales in centre ; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa and 

 blackish spots at discal fold and above and below vein 2 ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish defined on outer side by brown, minutely 

 dentate, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules defined on inner side by whitish. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal half somewhat paler ; the 

 underside with faint discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedif.1 

 line. 



Bah. Ceylon, 2 § typo ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 cJ , 1 5 • 

 Ed'p. 32 millim. 



6418. Nigramma todara, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 19.) 



Head and tegulse red-brown ; thorax dark brown mixed with 

 black and grey ; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing 

 dark brown suffused with purplish grey and slightly irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line indistinct, double, wavcd^ from ccsta to vein 1 ; 



