.294 '•N0CTTJIDJ3. 



2460. Dichonia obliquisigna. (Plate CIII. fig. 17.) 

 Folia ohliqmsigna, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. xiv. p. 202 (1902). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with white and fuscous, frons with 

 black bar ; tegulse with black medial line defined by whitish behind; 

 patagia whitish edged with black ; tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey sparsely irrorated 

 T\rith black and slightly tinged with olive ochreous in parts, especially 

 on medial area ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line indistinctly double filled in with white, curved, from costa to 

 eubmedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, obliquely 

 curved and minutely waved ; claviform defined by black, acute at 

 extremity with a bidentate white patch beyond it and black streak 

 from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by 

 black except above, the former white, oblique elliptical, the latter 

 "with slight pale annulus ; an irregular medial line bent outwards 

 round the white patch below cell ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and pro- 

 duced to black and white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; 

 .subterminal line grey slightly defined by black on inner side below 

 costa, then on outer side and on both sides in submedian interspace, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, slightly dentate at veins 4, 3 and angled 

 inwards in submedian interspace, some black streaks beyond it in 

 the interspaces ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey 

 with black lines through them. Hind wing whitish nearly uniformly 

 suffused with grey-brown ; a dark terminal line ; cilia white with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated with 

 fuscous, a discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla (Pilcher), 1 $ type, Dharmstila (HocJcing), 

 1 cT . Eay. 40 millim. 



Larva. Green with some irregular whitish markings ; a slight 

 pale dorsal line ; head brownish ; prothoracic shield brown. Food- 

 plant, Oak. 5. 



Sect It. An tennas of male nearly simple. 



2461. Dichonia areola. 



.Nociua areola, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 141. f. 4 (1789) ; Staud. Cat. Lap. pal. 



p. Iii2. 

 JSfoctua lithorhiza, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 339 (1792) ; Treit. Eur. 



Schmett. v. 3. p. 66 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 191, pi. 112. f. 4 ; Err. Beitr. 



pi. 70. f. 2; id. Neue Beitr. v. pi. 460; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. 



p. 187 ; Mill. Icones. pi. 104. f. 1. 

 Noctua operosa, Hiibn. Bur. Schmett., Noct. f. 398 (1827); Geyer, Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 764-5. 



Head and thorax clothed with brownish-grey and fuscous scales 

 and hair; palpi streaked with black at sides ; frons with black bar; 

 vertex of head with the crest black ; tegulae with strong black line 

 at base and slight medial line ; abdomen grey mixed with brown, 

 the lateral fringes tinged with purplish pink. Fore wing brownish 

 grey slightly irrorated with black, the disk tinged with fuscous ; 



