NEGETA. 631 



side ochreous white with some black irroration on costal area and 

 a series of small black spots just before termen, in female with a 

 curved postmedial line and some black irroration on terminal area. 

 Hab. Bombay, Kanara, Karwar {T. R. Bell), ] $ type ; Cevloj^, 

 Kandy (Green), 1 J. Exp. 30 millim. 



7073. Negeta contrariata. 



Xeffefa contrariata, Wlk. xxiv. 1105 (18(i2). 



Ht/pena dentilinealis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 613, pi. 60. f. 7; Hinpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 360. 



Head and thorax white faintly tinged with brown except in 

 front, and irrorated with a few brown scales ; palpi brown except 

 at base in front; frons with brown band above; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing white slightly tinged 

 Avith brown and sparsely irrorated with red-brown scales ; a small 

 brown spot at upper angle of cell ; postmedial line brown, arising 

 from apex, oblique and crenulate to vein 2, then very oblique to 

 submedian fold and erect to middle of inner margin ; a subterminal 



Fig. 251. — Negcta contrariata, (^, \, 



series of alight blackish points, somewhat excurved at middle and 

 incurved below vein 2. Hind wing brown, the base and costal 

 area whiter ; a pure white line at base of cilia ; the underside white 

 tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing whiter with hardly any brown tinge and 

 irrorated with dark brown ; hind wing white to beyond middle. — 

 N. Guinea. 



Hah. Atstdamai^s (Rogers), 4 S type dentilinealis ; Boristeo, Sarawak 

 ( Wallace), 1 $ , Sandakan (Pryer), 2 cS ; Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak 

 (Pratt), 1 2 . Bxp. 36-38 millim. Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



7074. Negeta sublineata. 



Urhona sublineata, Wlk. Journ. Linn. See, Zool. vi, p. 184 (1862) ; Swiuh. 



Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 73, pi. ii. f. 19. 

 Acontia leucophcsa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 49 (1864). 

 Nagasena albescens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 152 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 360. 



Head and thorax pale brown with a purplish tinge, the vertex of 

 head and base of tegulse pure white ; palpi white in front ; pectus 

 and legs white tinged with brown ; abdomen brown, ventrally 

 whitish. Fore wing white tinged and irrorated with brown, tho 



