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NOCTUIB.'R. 



black spots on each side of it at costa, then by a few black scales ; 

 claviform defined by diffused black : orbicular with dark centre, 

 else hardly traceable ; reniform with incomplete whitish annulus 

 forming a spot at lower extremity, some dark points in its upper 

 part and patch in lower ; the cell between the stigmata black with 

 a black bar above it from costa; some black suffusion before the 

 postmedial line, which is whitish defined b}^ black on inner side, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved 

 below vein 4, the costa beyond it with black striae and white points ; 

 subterminal line formed of interrupted white striae defined by black 

 patches on inner side at costa and on both sides at middle and above 

 inner margin, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and 

 submedian folds, escurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with some black at tips. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside paler, 

 with oblique discoidal bar and diffused curved postmedial line. 

 Hah. SiKHiM, 1 J type. Exp. 44 millim, 



B. Hind wing of male with the iieuration nornial. 



a. Fore wing of male with the disk clothed with sill<y downturned scales 

 on undei-side. 



2875. Trachea distans. 



Hadena distans, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 130 (1882) ; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 208. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some black ; palpi black 

 above ; tegulse with slight dark medial line ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with rufous; abdomen pale rufous irrorattd with fuscous. Fore 

 wing bright rufous irrorated with black, the basal half slightly 

 suffused with fuscous except inner area ; subbasal line double, 

 black, Avaved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, waved, bent inwards as a black streak above inner margin ; 

 claviform quadrate, defined by black and extending to median 



Fig. 25. — Trachea distans, (^ 



nervure ; orbicular round, defined by black and with slight whitish 

 annulus ; reniform more or less completely filled in with white, 

 with strong black bar on inner side, otherwise slightly defined and 

 with irregular outer edge ; a medial black sfriga from costa ; post- 

 medial line double, bent outwards below costa, then waved, oblique 

 to vein 3 near subterminal line, then incurved, some pale points 



