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NOCTUID^. 



black point on costa before apex and a terminal series. Hind wing 

 ■ocbreous white, with traces of a subterminal dark band. 



Fig. 14. — Ecifihuva confcrtissima, (^ . 



(From Moths Inch vol. ii.) 



Hab. S. India, Gooty (Cam/phell)^ 1 5, Coimbatore (WalJiou^e), 

 3 c? type. Kvji. 26-28 millim. 



38. Raghuva perstriata, n. sp. (Plate LY. fig. 14.) 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 •ochreous. Fore wing ochreous ; an obscure diffused fuscous fascia 

 along median nervure and above vein 4 to termen ; antemedial 

 hlack points on median nervure and vein 1 ; a curved postmedial 

 series of black points on the veins ; a minute black streak on costa 

 before apex and a terminal series of points. Hind wing ochreous. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Kangra, 1 cS type. i?Ay. 30 millim. 



Genus NEOCLEPTRIA, nov. 



Type, N. punctifera. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just, beyond frons and 

 fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence with corneous ridge 

 .across it ; eyes large, naked ; antenna of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 with scales and hair, without crests ; fore tibiaj with slender curved claw on 

 inner side and shorter claw on outer; micl and hind tibice spined ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; fi 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 ■cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 •of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



39. Neocleptria punctifera. 



Heliothis spinosce, Wlk. xi. 686 (1857), nee Guen. 



Eeliothis 2nmctifera, Wlk. xi. 691 (1857). 



Heliothis leucatma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 368. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black and often tinged with 

 rufous ; abdomen whitish dorsally, strongly irrorated with black 

 especially in female. Pore wing grey, strongly irrorated with black 

 and more or less strongly suffused with rufous; a waved subhasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold; the antemedial line angled outwards 

 below costa and cell and bent outwards above inner margin, Avith a 

 less distinct line on its inner edge ; claviform often represented by 

 a diffused blackish patch; orbicular and reniform brown-edged and 

 Avith fuscous centres, the former round, the latter with two black 

 points above it on costa ; an indistinct waved medial line from cell 



