574 NOCTUID^. 



616. Fore wing slightly tinged 



with rafous bilineata. 



6^5. Fore wing with the postmedial 

 line touching upper and 

 lower extremities of reni- 



f orm fervens. 



6i4. Fore wing without ante- and 

 postmedial lines. 

 ai*. Fore wing without black ter- 

 minal band. 



Q,i6_ TegulfB not blackish fuscicilia. 



b ^6. Tegulffi blackish fla vifrons. 



l)id Fore wing with black terminal 

 band narrowing to apex and 

 tornus marginata. 



5852. Eustrotia argentata. 



Micardia argentata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 81 (1878); id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 23, pi. 28. f. 3. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-brown ; tegulsB with 

 diffused blacliish line near tips ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing ochreous slightly tinged with rufous, suffused 

 with deep rufous and irrorated with black to end of cell except on 

 inner area 5 the cell filled in with silvery white to middle, then the 

 white bent downwards and angled outwards to or just before lower 

 angle of cell and extending to below the cell where it is angled on 

 vein 2, this white ai'ea defined by black towards extremity ; reniform 

 ochreous faintly defined by whitish and below by black, somewhat 

 constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, whitish, erect from costa to reniform, then 

 acutely angled outwards at vein G where it is met by an oblique 

 rufous fascia from apex, diffused towards costa, then incurved ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark strioB ; cilia with a faint brown line 

 near base. Hind wing pale ochreous tinged with brown ; a terminal 

 series of slight dark striae ; cilia pale ochreous ; the underside 

 ochreous white irrorated with a few brown scales, a blackish 

 discoidal point. 



Hab. Japan, Kiushiu, 1 $ , Nikko {^Maries, Ito), 4 S , Tokio 

 {Maries), 1 S , Yokohama (Jones, Manly), 3 (5,3$ type ; Cokea, 

 Gensan (Tto), 1 c5" , 1 $ : C. China, Kiukiang (Pryer), 1 c? • Exp. 

 32-34 millim. 



5853. Eustrotia pulcherrima. 



Leucania ptdcherrima, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 48, pi. 6. f . 7 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 309. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi fuscous 

 except at base ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with black, the anal 

 tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous white, the costal area 

 to beyond middle and the inner area tinged with fiery red ; the 



