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NOCTDID^. 



A. Hind wing of male white, the veii^s and termen slightly 



tinged with brown inexiricata. 



B. Hind wing of male whollj' tinged with brown, the 



terminal area broadly dark saga. 



2391. Euscotia inextricata. 



EMzogramma inexiricata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 342 ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 237. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulae with black 

 medial line and slight lines near base and before tips, which are 

 dark ; patagia with black Hue near upper edge, which is dark ; 

 tibiae with black streaks : abdomen grey dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing grey irrorated and suffused with brown ; the 

 veins with slight dark streaks ; a black streak below base of cell ; 



Fig. 79. — Euscotia inextricata, (^. |. 



subbasal line represented by a very oblique striga from base of 

 costa and slight striga from cell ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, represented by very oblique strise from costa, then obsolete 

 to below median nervure, where it is angled outwards in submedian 

 fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; a slight 

 streak above medial part of inner margin ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform incompletely defined by brown, the former 

 with slight brown centre, elongate, and its lower part produced into 

 a streak confluent with the reniform, which has its centre slightly 

 defined by brown ; postmedial line indistinct, double, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa and very oblique below vein 4, strongly 

 angled inwards and forming a bidentate whitish mark in submedian 

 fold ; diffused oblique brown fascia3 from it to termen below apex 

 and below veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing semihyaline white, the veins of terminal half and the termen 

 slightly tinged with brown in male, more strongly in female ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



ffah. Kashmir, ISTarkundah (McArtJmr), 1 $ ; Punjab, Xulu, 

 8ultanpur (G. Young), 2 cJ , 1 $ , Simla (Harford), 2 c? , 3 $ type, 

 Dalhousie, 1 $ , Thundiani ( Yerhury), 3 cJ ? 1 $ 5 Dharmsala 

 (HocJcing), 5 c? , 3 § ; Madras, Nilgiris (SivinJioe), 1 $ . Ewp. 

 52-56 millim. 



