TRACHEA. 201 



on inner and outer sides by short black streaks, somewhat angled 

 outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 with fine whitish line at base. Hind wing whitish suff'used with 

 fuscous brown except at base ; the underside white, the costal area 

 and veins suffused with pale reddish brown, a slight discoidal lunule 

 and minutely waved postraedial line. 



This may be a black-suffused form of T. consummata. 



Hah. Punjab, Simla (Harford), 1 ^ ; Madras, Shevaroys 

 {Campbell), 1 S ■> Coimbatore {Walliouse). 1 6 type; Cexlon, 1 $ . 

 Exp, 36-40 millim. 



2974. Trachea consummata. 



Hadena consummata, Wlk. xi. 591 (1857). 



Hadena, confundens, Wlk. xi. 757 (1857) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. .38, pi. 148. 



f. 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 208. 

 Mamestra thoracica, Wlk. xv. 1684 (1858). 

 Hadena inextricans, Wlk. xv. 1729 (1858). 

 Hadena iullpifera, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 321, pi. xi. f. 195 (1891). 



Head and thorax bright rufous with some black and whitish 

 scales ; palpi black above ; frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi 

 black ringed with rufous ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous, slightly suffused with brown and irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, oblique towards inner margin ; claviform 

 quadrate, defined by black below and at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the 

 latter irregular and with some whitish points on outer edge; a 

 medial blackish striga from costa ; postmedial line double, bent 

 outwards below costa, then waved, oblique to vein 3, near sub- 

 terminal line, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of small ochreous spots 

 with minute dentate dark marks before them at middle, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia rufous with a punctiform yellowish line at base. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with red-brown except basal half of costal area ; a 

 fine waved black terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous. 

 Underside of fore wing whitish tinged with brown except inner 

 area, the costal area rufous ; a dark postraedial line angled outwards 

 below costa and at middle and diffused subterminal band; hind 

 wing whitish, the costal area suffused with rufous, a black discoidal 

 lunule, irregularly crenulate postmedial line, diffused subterminal 

 band, and terminal series of black lunules. 



Ab. 1, Hind wing entirely suffused with fuscous brown ; under- 

 side of fore wing suffused with fuscous leaving the costal area 

 rufous to postmedial line. 



"• Ab. 2. Hind wing of male with the basal half much whiter and 

 with dark postmedial line. 



Ab. 3. Pore wing without white points on outer edge of reniform. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with prominent white spot on outer edge of 

 reniform. 



