616 NOCTUIDJE. 



Avhite slightly irroratefl with brown, a diifused curved postraedial 

 band and traces of subterminal band. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Moller), 3 $ ; Assam, Ivhasis, 2 cS tyTpe. Exp. 

 6 24, $ 28 raillim. 



7043. Nertobriga straminea. 



Boranagn straminea, Hmpsn. 111. Het, B.M. viii. p. 92, pi. 147. f. 17 

 (lb9i) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 362. 



2 . Head blackish ; palpi pale brownish in front ; thorax and 

 abdomen pale brownish ochreous ; fore tarsi fuscous with pale rings. 

 Fore wing pale brownish ochreous ; an oblique dark shade from 

 costa beyond middle to vein 6, with pale patch beyond it ; the ter- 

 minal area tiuged with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white suffused 

 with brown, except on costal area ; cilia ochreous white ; the under- 

 side pale brownish ochreous. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiris ( Hamjjson), 1 5 type. Exp. 24 millim. 



"*7044. Nertobriga abbreviata. (Plate CXC. fig. 10.) 



Leucania ahbreviata, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 180 (1862); 

 Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 74. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous white suffused with rufous ; traces of 

 a curved rufous antemedial line ; reniform represented by faint 

 rvifous bars at sides ; postmedial line indistinct, rufous, from costa 

 to discal fold, excurved below costa ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of slight fuscous marks from discal fold to inner margin ; 

 cilia fuscous at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with brownish 

 rufous ; cilia whitish ; the underside white tinged with brown. 



Hah. Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), type f J' in Mus. Oxon. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus TROGOBEIGA, nov. 



Type, 2\ albifera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; ej'es 

 large, round; antennae of female ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirelj 

 with scales and without crests ; tibise slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crests on three basal segments. Fore wing with the apex produced and 

 acute, the termen excised below apex and angled outwards at vein 3, then 

 oblique, a small scale-tooth at tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing witli 

 veins 3, 4 frotn angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



7045. Trogobriga albifera, n. sp. 



9 , Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown ; pectus and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white ; anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown ; a slight dentate black subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black, waved to median nervure. 



