228 NOCTUID^. 



terminal line white and incurved from vein 7 to 4 where it is 

 angled outwards, then slight, whitish, oblique, a small dentate 

 black mark before it below vein 7 and yellowish points beyond it 

 above and below vein 6, a blackish fascia from it to tips of cilia at 

 vein 4 ; a series of black striae just before termen ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line; cilia pale rufous, chequered with fuscous 

 towards apex. Hind wiug greyish rufous, the base ochreous white ; 

 a fine minutely dentate black postmedial line ; subterminal line 

 whitish defined on each side by black scales and with slight black 

 marks before and beyond it towards inner margin, very minutely 

 waved, a series of black points just before termen ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line ; cilia pale nifous with a fine whitish line at 

 base ; the underside grey-white irrorated with fuscous, a blackish 

 discoidal point, curved postmedial line, punctiform subterminal line, 

 and series of black points before termen. 



$ . Pore wing with the costal area more uniformly suffused 

 with rufous. 



Hob. K. India {James), 1 S ; Bombay, Kanara, Karwar (Bell), 

 1 § ; Ceylon, 1 $ type. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



*5349, Lophoruza diversalis. 



Bertula diversalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1169 (1865); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. 

 ii. p. 68, pi. i. f. 19. 



5 . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous, the tegulae 

 irrorated \\i\h fuscous ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown 

 except at base and extremity ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen whitish, the tibiae and tarsi suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing with the costal half from inner margin before middle to apex 

 ochreous suffused with rufous, the rest of wing reddish browji with 

 a large whitish patch at tornus extending to postmedial line and 

 up to vein 3, the costal edge red-brown ; traces of a double waved 

 rufous antemedial line ; two black discoidal points ; an indistinct 

 rufous medial line oblique from costa to beyond upper angle of cell, 

 below vein 4 inwardly oblique and forming the inner edge of the 

 dark area; postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 double, the inner line blackish, incurved and minutely waved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line double, minutely 

 waved, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 

 4 where it is crossed by a dark streak from postmedial line ; a series 

 of black points before termen conjoined into a line from below apex 

 to vein 4 ; a fine blackish terminal line ; cilia rufous mixed with 

 dark brown. Hind wing red-brown, the base ochreous bounded by 

 the dark antemedial line; two black discoidal points; traces of a 

 curved minutely dentate medial line ; postmedial line very indistinct 

 and excurved from costa to vein 2, then double, rufous filled in with 

 white and minutely waved; a series of black points before termen ; 

 a fine waved black terminal line ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, tho costal area tinged with rufous, a black 



