200 



Kocrnn^r,. 



aiitemedial line iiidistiuct, doulile, excurved below costa, ilicn 

 oblique, waved ; claviform and orbicular represented by black strise 

 on their outer edge ; reniform slightly defined by black and with 

 tuft of raised black scales in centre ; au indistinct sinuous medial 

 line ; postmedial line, indistinctly double, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, incurved at discal fold and strongly 

 below vein 4 ; a series of small dentate black marks before the 

 subterminal line, which is grey defined on outer side by brown or 

 blackish, minutcl}^ dentate ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules, the one above tornus defined on inner side by white. 

 Hind wing dark brown, the cilia grey at tips. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with blackish "band beyond the antemedial 

 line. 



Ab. 2. Thorax black Avith the dorsal crest tipped with white ; 

 fore wing with diffused black streaks on basal area on median 

 nervure and vein 1. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 3 Js 3 § type. Exp. 28- 

 32 millim, 



6449, Nigramma polymorplia. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 20.) 



Gyrtona polymovplia, Hmpsn. A. M, N. H. (7) xvi, p. 539 (1905). 



J . Head and thorax purplish black-brown with some rufous on 

 head, tegulte, and prothorax ; pectus and hind legs greyish ; tarsi 

 fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous, whitish below. Pore 

 wing purplish black-brown with traces of waved subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and medial lines ; reniform defined by black ; postmedial 

 line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below cosla, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; a double minutely waved subterminal 

 line, slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, slightly paler at 

 base ; the underside paler with indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing redder brown, the basal area except towards 

 costa, the medial area except towards costa and inner margin, and 

 the area between the two subterminal lines grey-white irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a black patch before the antemedial line below cell 

 and another beyond it in and below cell ; reniform red-brown 

 largely suffused with black. 



$ like the typical male but head, thorax, and fore wing redder 

 brown. 



Ab. 2. Pore wing pale red-brown, the inner half from base to 

 postmedial line suff'ased with white. 



Ab. 3. Pore wing ochreous brown. 



Ab. 4. Pore wing- greyish brown with black point on antemedial 

 line at vein 1 and patch beyond it in and below cell. 



Ab. 5, Pore wing with the medial and terminal areas dull 

 reddish brown, the basal area and the area between the two 

 postmedial lines except at costa ochreous brown. 



Hah. Maurixils, Ourepipc (TidJoclc), 3 cJ , 4 $ type. Exp. 30- 

 34 millim. 



