396 



AECTIA.D/E. 



fold, the last with obliquely placed spot above it ; a terminal series 

 of points. Hind wing fuscous, with very obscure discoidal spot. 



Hah. Assam, jN'aga Hills, 6000 feet {Doherty). Type f in Coll. 

 Elwes. Exp. 32 millim. 



843. Siccia sordida. 



Mmene sordida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 372 ; Moore, Lep. Cejl. 

 ii. p. 65, pi. 104. f. 4; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 92; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 367. 



Pale grej-brown ; palpi blackish ; metathorax, ends of patagia, 

 tibiae and tarsi spotted with black ; abdomen with the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface yellowish white. Pore wing Avith black point at 

 base and subbasal points below costa and cell ; anantemedial series 

 of points from below costa to submedian fold ; a point in middle of 

 cell ; a medial dentate line arising from a spot on costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a 

 discoidal lunule ; a minutely dentate postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, angled at veins 6 and 4, then bent inwards below the 

 cell and outwards again to inner margin ; an interrupted line beyond 

 it, excurved below costa and at middle, then incurved ; a terminal 

 series of points and points on the cilia at apex and middle. Hind 

 wing white, tinged with brown towards apex ; in female pale 

 fuscous. 



Hah. China, Shanghai {J. J. Walker), 1 c? , Ngan-kin, 1 c? ; 

 Punjab, Mynpuri, 1 S ; Coimbatoee (Walhouse), 1 d type; 

 C^YLotf (Green), 3 c5~ , 1 $. Exp., J 18, $ 22 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing whiter. 



Hah. Singapore {Ridley), 1 S ; Bali {Doherty), 2 cJ . 



Subsp. 2. subcinerea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 34 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 367. 

 M7nene modesta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 34 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 367. 



Hind wing of male fuscous, the cilia whitish. 

 Hah. FoEMoSA (Swinhoe), 1 J type modesta ; Kangea (HocMng), 

 2^,2$ type. 



Subsp. 3. quinquefascia, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 52, pi. 140. f. 15 



(1891) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 368. 

 Fore wing largely suffused with black. 

 Hah. N iLGiEis (Hampson), 1 c? , 1 $ type. 



844. Siccia albisparsa. (Plate XXIX. fig. 11.) 



Mmene albisparsa, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1897, p. 439. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown irrorated with grey ; abdomen 

 dark grey, the anal tuft and ventral surface yellowish. Pore wing 

 dark brown irrorated with white, the basal and medial areas most 

 thickly irrorated ; a black point in middle of cell, and. a white point 

 on inner side of the black discoidal lunule; the postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, angled at veins 6 and 4, then incurved and 



