300 



NOCTUID^, 



has a slight greyish annuh;s defined by black, somewhat oblique 

 elliptical ; reniform slightly defined by black ; an irregularly 

 sinuous medial line ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 then somewhat dentate ami produced to short streaks on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, oblique to submedian fold, then bent outwards, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line greyish 

 slightly defiued on each side by black, minutely waved, slightly 

 exciu-ved at vein 7 and middle, with black streaks in the inter- 

 spaces beyond it ; a fine waved i,erminal line ; cilia with fine pale 

 line at base. Hind wing yellowish brown tinged with fuscous, the 

 termen rather darker ; cilia brownish ochreous with a dark line 

 through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 black discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hah. Punjab, Simla (Pilcher), 1 c? type. Exp. 28 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the 3rd joint short. 

 2468. Nyctycia persimilis. 



Bojnhycia persimilis. Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 206 (1894). 

 Bajulna mminalis, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. II (nee Fabr.). 



S . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some fuscous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish ; antennae blackish with pale 

 rings ; tegulse with black line near tips, which are fuscous ; 

 abdomen grey-brown sufi'used with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown 

 sparsely irrorated with black and suffused with fuscous on medial 

 area ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by two black striae from costa ; antemedial line oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold ; claviform rather large, defined by 

 black ; orbicular pale brown, defined by black, rounded ; reniform 



Fig. 92. — Nyctycia 2'>erswiUis, c?. \. 



pale, defined on inner side only by a straight oblique black line ; 

 postmedial line represented by double black striae from costa, then 

 very indistinct, bent outwards below costa and excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved to below inner edge of reniform and 

 prominent ; subterminal line very indistinct, greyish defined on 

 inner side by minute dentate black marks at middle and in sub- 

 median fold, excurved at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3 ; a 

 terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia greyish with a 

 fuscous line near base ; the underside grey sparsely irrorated with 



