498 



NOCTiriDiE, 



Sect. I. Antennte of male with fascicles of long cilia, 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from costa to 



vein 6 and incurved below vein 4 plumbata. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly bent outwards 



below costa and oblique below vein 4 umhrina. 



5748. Litliacodia plumbata. 



Acontia plumhata, Eutl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 61, pi. 129. f. 4 (1889); 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 305. 

 Marimatha freda, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 147. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the fore tarsi 

 fuscous with pale rings; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with 

 brown, the crests blackish. Eore wing ochreous suffused with 

 rufous ; a pink and fuscous fascia on costa from near base to the 

 antemedial lino, which is indistiuet, double, minutely waved, ex- 

 curved, with some pink and black scales on it in submedian fold ; 

 orbicular with its outer edge fainth- defined by rufous, the reniform 

 with its inner edge similarly defined ; bases of veins 3, 4 with pink 

 streaks ; postmedial line double, black filled in with pink, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold, inwardly 

 oblique and minutely waved below vein 4, some blackish points 



F'tg. 148. -Lit hacodia plumbata, c^ . \. 



beyond it on costa and veins 6, 5, 4 streaked with blackish ; the 

 terminal area pink irrorated by fuscous and defined on inner side 

 by blackish representing the subterminal line, oblique from apex to 

 discal fold when it is angled inwards and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia pink and fuscous with a dark 

 line at middle. Hind wing ochreous whitish sufi^used with fuscous; 

 cilia ochreous with dark lines at middle and tips ; the underside 

 ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 curved minutely waved postmedial line, difi'used subterminal line, 

 and fine terminal line. 



Bab. Punjab, Dalhousie (Harford), 2 c?, 1 $ , Dharmsala 

 {Hocking), 2 c? , 6 $ type ; ? Madbas, Nilgiris (Swinhoe), 1 c? type 

 freda. Exp. 26 millim. 



5749. Lithacodia umbrina. 



Acontia timbrma, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 74, pi. 145. f. 15 (1891); 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 306. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with some rufous ; abdomen 



