62 NocTuin.B. 



points defined on Inner side by black -brown suffusion, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle and bent inwards at vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of minute white points ; cilia black-brown. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with fuscous brown, especially on terminal area, 

 the veins dark ; cilia whitish chequered with brown ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, the terminal ai'ea suff'used Avith 

 brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



Hah. Madras, Godavari Distr., liajamahendri (Bird), 1 c? type. 

 Exj). 28 millim. 



2798. Stenopterygia subcurva. 



Hadena suhcurva, Wlk. xi. 592 (1857) ; Hrapsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 212. 

 Ha.dena postica, Wlk. xi. 594 (1857). 



Xylina calida, Wlk. eTourn. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 195 (1862). 

 Bipterygia sikkima, Moore, Lep. Alk. p. 195 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p'. 230. 

 Opigena monostigma, Saahn. Lep. Madag. p. 287, f. 104 (1891). 



Head and thorax red-brown suffused Avith fuscous ; palpi whitish 

 in front ; teguloe with blackish medial line ; pectus and legs pale 

 rufous ; abdomen grey -brown, the dorsal crests rufous, the ventral 

 surface pale rufous. Fore wing red-brown suffused in parts with 



Fig. 13. — Steno'pterygia suhcurva, (^ . \. 



dark leaden grey, the postmedial area rather redder from costa to 

 vein 5 ; subbasal line double at costa, then oblique, waved, ending 

 at vein 1 ; a black streak above inner margin before the antemedial 

 line which is double at costa, then oblique, waved ; claviform 

 slightly defined by black ; orbicular very small and indistinct, with 

 faint reddish annulus, round ; reniform with slight reddish annulus ; 

 an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to median nervure ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double towards costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, oblique to vein 5, then strongly incurved ; subterminal 

 line represented by minute reddish spots with slight black streaks 

 before them, the streak above vein 4 extending to reniform and 

 above vein 2 to near postmedial line, some slight black streaks 

 beyond it in the interspaces. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins and terminal half brown ; cilia white, brown at 

 apex and middle and with slight brown line through them ; the 



