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2976. Trachea connivens. 



Apamea connivens, Feld. Eeis. Not. pi. 109. f. 27 (1874). 



Arffotin quadrisigna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 350; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 208. 

 Argotis placida, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 117, pi- iv. f. 19 (1882). 



Head and thorax pale brownish grey slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous; palpi black above; tegulae with basal black points at 

 middle and sides ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing pale brownish grey slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

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

 antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviform short and broad, 

 defined by black except above ; orbicular incompletely defined by 

 black, somewhat elliptical ; reniform with black bar on inner side 

 and pale rufous or grey spot on outer with slight points above and 

 below it, otherwise undefined; a waved medial dark line oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then waved, oblique to vein 3 

 near subterminal line, then incurved ; subterminal line represented 

 by a series of small pale rufous dentate marks, defined at middle on 

 inner side by small dentate black marks and on outer side by black 

 points, somewhat angled outward at vein 7 ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; cilia with pale rufous line at base. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with fuscous especially on terminal area ; cilia 

 yellowish white ; the underside white, the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and traces of post- 

 medial and subterminal lines on costal half. 



This may be a grey form of T. consummata. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt (//wifc/tmson), 1 $, Durban (Ze^'f/Zi), 1 5 ; 

 C. CoxoHT, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 6 ; Xashmie ; Punjak, 

 Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 J , 2 $, Simla (i?«ec^, Harford), 

 4 5 , Dharmsala (Hocking), 4 c5' , 8 $ , Deyra Dhun, 1 c? type ; 

 Bengal, Calcutta. Ea^p. 36-48 millim. 



*2977. Trachea dinavana, n. n. (Plate CXIII. fig. 16.) 



Enrols dinawa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 196 (1906), mc Etiplexia 

 dinawa, p. 195. 



S . Head and thorax rufous ; palpi black above ; lower part of 

 frons white: tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with rufous ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing rufous slightly 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by black strise from 

 costa and cell ; antemedial line with blackish mark at costa, almost 

 obsolete to median nervure, then double, black, angled outwards in 

 submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform large, defined by black except above ; orbicular defined 

 by black at sides, oblique oblong, almost confluent with the reniform, 

 which is defined by black on inner side and below and with white 

 lunule on outer edge, with one white point above it and two below 

 it ; a brown shade from middle of costa with a black striga on it 

 and indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 



