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NOCTUIDiE. 



pale brown ; thorax fuscous mixed with red-brown and white, the 

 patagia with green fasciae ; fore tibiae brown mixed with green, the 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests and 

 anal tuft tinged with rufous. !Fore wing olive-green irrorated with 

 black, the veins and postmedial area purplish grey, the costa black ; 

 subbasal line waved, from costa to a black and white spot above 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line deliued by purplish grey on inner side, 

 oblique, minutely waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform 

 with black -irrorated brown centres and green annuli, the fornaer 

 elliptical, the latter large, constricted at middle, an oblique pinkish 

 white patch between them from subcostal nervure to submedian 

 fold; postmedial line double at costa, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, some white points bej^ond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line green expanding into a band on inner 

 side below vein 3 and with green strealvs from it to termen between 

 veins 7 and 2, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and 

 strongly incurved in submedian interspace ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia green mixed with black. Hind wing 

 Avith the basal half yellowish white, the terminal half fuscous, the 

 inner area suffused with brown ; cilia yellowish white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with black, a black discoidal spot and sometimes a streak in cell, 

 the termen grey. 



Ab. 1. liicia. Hind wing with the basal area more or less 

 tinged with brown. 



Hab. Japan, Tokio (Whitely, Maries), Id", 2 $, type lucia; 

 CoREA, Gensan (Leech), 8 5 ; W. China, Omei-shan, 1 5 , Wa-shan 

 (Pratt), 2 2 , Ni-tou, 1 c? , 1 ? , Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 ^,2 $ , 

 Pu-tsu-fang, 1 c? , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 2 $ , Mou-pin (KricJieldorf), 

 1 (S ; Kashmir, Scinde Valley (Leech), 1 S '- Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 (G. Young), 1 $ , Dharmsala (Hoclcing), 2 c?, 3$ , Hurripur (Yer- 

 hury), 1 $ ; Sikhim (LidderdaJe), 1 $ ; Madras, Nilgiris (Sivinhoe, 

 Lindsay, ffanijyson), 3 d" , 3 § ; Travancore, Pirmad (3Irs. hnray), 

 1 cJ, 1 $; Ceylon (Templeton), 1 $ type. Exp. 48-54 millim. 



2902. Trachea leucodonta, n. sp. (Plate CXI. fig. 21.) 



Head and thorax fuscous mixed with black, red-brown and white; 

 palpi black with some white at extremity of 2nd joint; frons with 

 black bars at middle and above ; tegula3 with black medial line ; 

 tarsi rufous ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous mixed Avith grey, 

 the crests tipped with rufous. Pore wing silvery grey suffused with 

 fuscous and pale olive-brown and irrorated with black; subbasal 

 line represented by double black strias from costa and cell filled in 

 with white ; antemedial line double, black filled in with greyish, 

 oblique, waved ; orbicular pale olive defined by black and with 

 slight blackish centre, round, a rather triangular white mark 

 beyond it conjoined to a lunulate white patch below the cell ; 

 reniform large, pale olive and whitish defined by black and with 



