120 



NOCTUIDJE. 



Avhite except towards costa ; subterminal liue wliite defined on 

 inner side by slight dentate rufous marks, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, the area beyond it brown except at apex ; a terminal 

 series of small black luuules ; cilia brown with a fine white line at 

 base. Hind wing white tinged with brown ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal point, faint curved postmedialliue, 

 and fine terminal line. 



Bab. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 2 § type; "W. China, Omci- 

 shan, 2 c5' type conjuncta. Exp. 6 32, § 34 millim. 



2867. Trachea stoliczcsB. 



Mamcstra stolicskcs, Felcl. Eels. Nov. pi. 1U9. f. 32 (1874); Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 214. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; vertex of head, 

 tegulse, and patagia with olive-green patches, the tegulse with slight 

 medial black line, the patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; the tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with fuscous, the crests blackish at tips. Pore wing grey irrorated 

 with fuscous and with patches of olive-green on basal and terminal 

 areas, the medial area suffused with olive-green except towards 

 costa and inner margin ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa and cell filled in with grey ; antemedial line 

 defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards at vein 1 and to inner margin ; 

 claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 whitish slightly defined by black, and their centres irrorated with 



Fig. 22. — Trachea stulic:cce, S 



fuscous, the former oblique, somewhat constricted at middle, the 

 latter large and rather irregular ; an indistinct medial line oblique 

 flora costa to median nervure, then strongly incurved and angled 

 outwards on vein 1 ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line white defined on each side by fuscous, waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle, then incurved, a terminal series 

 of black points and fine waved line ; cilia with a slight pale line at 

 base. Hind wing fuscous, the basal half ratlier paler ; cilia fuscous 

 with slight pale line at base and whitish tips ; the underside 



