212 NOCTUID.^. 



D. Fore and hind wings normal. 

 a. Antennas of male with long cilia. 



a}. Fore wing witli broad white fascia below costa ... niveivitta. 

 h^. Fore wing witliouf; white fascia below costa. 

 a-. Fore wing with the ground-colour brown. 



a'. Head and tegnliB bright rufous ferriceps, 



//. Head and tegulsB dark browa hylusalis. 



li^. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a^. Fore wing without brown band beyond the 



medial line oxyptera. 



P. Fore wing with brown band beyond the 



medial line erebenna. 



6465. Gyrtona niveivitta. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 26.) 



Gyrtona iiiveivifta, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) sv. p. 1.58 (1905). 



S . Head and thorax dark brown ; pectus whitish ; tibiae and 

 tarsi black ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing fuscous brown with 

 a purplish silvery gloss ; a pure white fascia below costa, its lower 

 edge rather diffused and irregular, extending to below median 

 nervure before middle ; subbasal line represented by a dark point 

 on costa, the antemedial line by double points on costa and double 

 sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; an indistinct curved medial 

 line interrupted by the white fascia; reniform white defined by 

 blackish, incompletely above, and with dark striga in centre ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, excurved below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa and a dark line excurved below costa and at 

 middle; subterrainal line white defined on outer side by blackish, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it 

 with slight black streaks on the veins ; a black terminal line ; 

 cilia intersected with white at apex. Hind wing uniform fuscous 

 brown with a faint purplish gloss. 



ffah. Penang, 1 c? ; Borneo, Sarawak, 2 c? , Kuching, 1 c? tvpe. 

 ExjJ. 20-22 millim. 



6466. Gyrtona ferriceps, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 27.) 



c? • Head and teguhe rufous ; thorax brown tinged with 

 purplish grey; pectus whitish ; tarsi slightly ringed with white; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface white at base. Fore 

 wing brown tinged with purplish grey and with slight daTk 

 irroration ; subbasal line represented by two minute points on 

 costa, the antemedial line by a slight diffused dark patch on costa 

 and spot on vein 1 ; traces of a double sinuous medial line ; a 

 fuscous discoidal spot tinged with grey ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate, oblique below vein 4, some slight pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; a slight dark subterminal line defined on inner side by 

 whiti-5h towards inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small blakcish spots. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the cilia white at tips. 



Hub. BuPvMAH, Rangoon, 1 c? type. Sr^>, 22 millim. 



