202 NOCTTJIDiE. 



Ab. 5. Fore wiug with reddish spot on outer edge of reniform. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Athi-ya-mawe (Betton), 1 c5" , Nairowa 

 (Betton), 1 c^, Lagari (Betton), 1 d , Nairobi (Betton), 1 $; 

 Transvaal (Oholmley), ^ S ; Natal, type t in Mus. Oxon., Estcourt 

 (Hutcliinson), '3 S , 1 ^ , Victoria distr. (Gouch), 1 S, Malvern 

 (Millar), 1 5 , Durban (3£rs. Plant, Gueinzuis, Gooch, Leigh), 2 c? , 

 3 §, type i/ioracica ; Madagascar; Mauritius, Curepipe (Tulloch), 

 1 cS; Aden (Yerhury), 1 S ; C. China, Kiukitmg (Pratt), 1 $; 

 Punjab, Dharmsala (Hockinc/), 1 § : Bengal, 1 J , Barackpur, 1 d ; 

 Bombay (Sivinhoe), 1 (5 , 1 5 ; Madras, Gooty (Campbell), 1 d" , 

 Nilgiris (Eampson), 3 d , 2 $ ; Ceylon, 2 c? , 4 5 type confundens, 

 Pundaloya (Green), 1 d , Trincomali (Yerhury), 1 $; Java 

 (Horsfield), 1 S , ^ $; Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 d. 

 i^Ti,7>. 38-42 millim. 



Larva. Brownish grey, the 4th and llth somites humped, sub- 

 dorsal vesicular black marks on 4th and 5th somites ; an irregular 

 dorsal and lateral black band on 4th somite and dorsal patch on 

 12th somite; stigmata black. 



2975. Trachea siderifera. (Plate CXIII. fig, 15.) 



Hadena siderifera, Moore, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 357; Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. 

 p. 208. 



Head and thorax dark purplish brown with a few white and 

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

 tegulce with' traces of medial dark line ; tarsi black ringed with 

 rufous ; abdomen dark purplish brown. Eore wing dark purplish 

 brown ; subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, black, waved, oblique ; claviform 

 large, quadrate, defined by black on outer side and below ; orbicular 

 defined by black, oblique elliptical; reniform defined by black on 

 inner side and below with white spot on outer edge with white 

 points above and below it; a waved black medial line oblique from 

 costa to below cell ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below 

 costa, then waved, obli(]ue to vein 3 near subterminal line, then 

 incurved, with slight white points on it at the veins and with some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, ochreous, 

 defined on inner side at middle by small dentate black marks and 

 with small black spots on outer edge, somewhat angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 6, 4, 3; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with minute 

 black points at base followed by a dark line. Hind wing deep 

 fuscous brown, the cilia rufous ; the underside greyish tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and diff'used subterminal band. 



This may be a purplish-brown form of T. consummata. 



Hah. W. China, Omei-shan, 1 $ , Wa-shan (Pratt), 1 S , Wa-ssu- 

 kou, 1 5 1 Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 5 '■> Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 (G. Young), 1 d , 1 $ , Simla (Reed, Swinlioe, Harford!), 3^,2$ 

 type, Dharmsala (Hocking), 3^,1$; Sikhim. Jilxp. 44- 

 50 millim. 



