G12 NOCTUIDzR. 



subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; a series of black points 

 just before termen and more prominent spot at submedian fold ; 

 cilia chocolate-brown beyond the patch. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia 

 white with a brownish line through them ; the underside white, 

 the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the discoidal bar almost obsolete. — 

 Louisiades. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Pilcher), 1 c? ; Phutan- (Dud'/eon), 1 5 type; 

 Ckylon, Haldamulla {Maclcwood), 1 5 ; Louisiades, St. Aignan 

 {Meelc), 1 (^ . Exp. 30-32 millim. 



7038. Vestermannia cornucopia. 



Ingura cornucojna, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 01, pi. 141. f. 12 (ISOH; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 359. 



Head and thorax grej^ tinged with red-brown and irrorated with 

 a few black scales ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; a large chocolate-brown patch edged 

 with whitish from termen, on which it extends from apex to 

 submedian fold, to middle of inner margin ; the extremitj^ of 

 median nervure and bases of veins 4, 3 on the patch streaked with 

 blue-grey ; a narrow discoidal bar edged with whitish and with 

 blue-grey suffusion beyond it, sometimes with a small fiery-red or 

 whitish spot below it ; a fine postmedial white line across the 

 patch, incurved to vein 4, then excurved ; a subterminal series of 

 faint minute blackish spots, incurved below vein 3 ; a series of 

 minute black points just before termen : cilia chocolate-red beyond 

 the patch. Hind wing brown, the interspaces of basal half some- 

 times whitish in male ; the underside whitish tinged with brown, 

 the terminal area suffused with brown between veins 7 and 2. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 1 $ type ; Travancoee, 

 Pirmad (Imrcnj), 1 cT, 2 $ ; Ddtch K. Guikea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 

 1 d . ^■W- 28-34 millim, 



7039. Vestermannia picta. 



Calymera picta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 104, pi. iv. f. 7 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 357. 



5 . Head fuscous black ; palpi whitish in front, brown behind and 

 at tips ; antennae brown ; thorax brownish white irrorated with 

 black, the tegulse and prothorax with large fuscous black patches ; 

 pectus and legs white tinged with brown ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish tinged with brown 

 and irrorated with purplish fuscous ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 dark, oblique towards costa, then minutely waved, a rounded patch 

 beyond it on inner area, black-brown on inner side, fiery red on 



