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NOCTUID^. 



towards costa ; a greyish fascia on inner margin from near base, the 

 area beyond the postmedial line grey below vein 2, at termen ex- 

 tending to vein 3 and with a rufous fascia below vein 2 ; subbasal 

 line represented by a faint oblique striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, blackish, dentate, angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 strongly outwards above inner margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 and reniform indistinctly defined by black and with some white 

 scales representing their annuli, the former irregiilarly rounded ; 

 postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and slightly angled out- 

 wards on vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa ; a faint pale 

 subterminal line excurved at middle, with a series of black streaks 

 before it in the interspaces om dark area, the streak above vein 5 

 extending to reniform and the streak above 3 to termen ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia fuscons intersected with whitish to- 

 wards apex, mostly whitish towards torrnus. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the base rather paler; cilia white with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside white, the costal and ts^rminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot and traces of curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah, BoBNEO, Sarawak {Wallace), 4 S^ Bidi {Shelf (yi-d), 1 d . 

 E.vp. 32-40 millim. 



Subsp. J . Fore wing blacker, the patch beyond postmedial line 

 suffused with brown. 



Flah. Chbisxjias I. {Andrews), 2 2 - 



2807. Dipteryg^ia cristifera, 



Biftenjgia cHsiifera, Hmpsii. Ill, Het. B.M. is. p. 94, pi. 162. f. 7 (1893) ; 

 id. Moths Ind, ii. p. 235. 



Head, tegulse, and patagia fuscous mixed with grey; thorax red- 

 dish brown ; palpi in front and lower part of frons white, the latter 

 with black lateral bars ; pectus purplish in front ; legs fuscous mixed 

 with grey, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown 

 mixed with grey, the crests rufous and grej\ Fore wing grey- 

 brown suffused with purplish fuscous except on costa towards apex ; 

 a greyish fascia on inner margin from near base and patch beyond 

 postmedial line below vein 2, at termen extending to vein 3 ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a slight stiiga from costa ; traces of a 

 black streak below base of cell ; a black streak above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line, which is very indistinct and minutely 

 Avaved from costa to vein 1, then strongly angled outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform faintly defined by brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform. incompletely defined by black and with yellowish scales 

 representing their annuli; postmedial line black, bent outwards 

 below costa, minutely dentate and excurvcd to vein 4, then in- 

 curved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 yellowish, maculate with short black streaks in the interspaces 

 befoi'e and beyond it, jlie streak aliove vein 2 strong and extending 



