444 NOCTUIDJE. 



subbasal line represented hy two black points on costa ; antemedial 

 line slight, double, minutely waved, with two black points on 

 costa ; a minute black point in middle of cell ; reniform smiiU, 

 grey defined by blackish, elliptical, its inner edge slightly angled 

 inwards; postmedial line double filled in with greyish, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, angled inwards at discal fold, incurved and 

 minutely waved below vein 4, a slight blackish streak before it in 

 sub median fold and some pale points with black streaks between 

 them beyond it on costa; subtercninal line grey, minutely waved, 

 excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series 

 of minute black lunules defined on inner side by grey ; cilia grey, 

 dark brown at tips. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish 

 with some brown at base ; the underside grey irrorated with, 

 fuscous, the apical area suffused with fuscous, a slight discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Ceylon, Wellawaya (Green), 1 c? type. Exj). 22 millim. 



5674. Ozarlja terminipuncta. 



Metachrostis termini'puncta, Hmpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. p. 36 (1899) ; 

 id. Nat. Hist. Socotra, p. 324, pi. xx. fig. 2. 



(5 . Head and thorax rufous, the vertex of head with some 

 white scales ; pectus, legs, and abdomen paler irrorated with 

 fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with white, the anal tuft tinged 

 with rufous. Eore wing with the basal half pale rufous, the 

 terminal half mostly suffused with deep purple-red ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, double, with two black points at costa, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, rufous with two black points at 

 costa, waved, and somewhat oblique ; medial line oblique, waved, 

 with small black spot at costa ; reniform obliquely defined by black 

 on inner side, faintly defined on outer ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with whitish, oblique from costa to vein 6, then minutely 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4, a blackish patch before it in sub- 

 median fold, a slight dentate dark shade beyond it except towards 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side hy brown 

 and with some whitish suffusion before it on inner area ; the 

 terminal area whitish and red with a black spot at discal fold ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia whitish at base and tips, 

 fuscous at middle. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish 

 tinge; the cilia whitish at base and tips ; the underside ochreous 

 white irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot, curved postmedial 

 line, diffused subterminal line, and fine terminal line. 



Hah. SoKOTEA, Adho Dimellus {0. Grant), 1 c? tj^pe. Exjp. 28 

 millim. 



5675. Ozarba badia. (Plate CLXII. fig. 17.) 



Acontia hadia, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 445 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 330. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown, the last with some 



