288 NOCTTTID^. 



tinged with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white : abdomen 

 white tinged with brown, the basal crest black at tip. Fore wing 

 ochreous tinged with rufous, the area below costa paler, becoming 

 pure white at apex, a large white patch on inner area from near 

 base to near tornus, rounded above, the terminal area redder to 

 the oblique streak from termen just below apex, suffused with black 

 towards tornus ; the base white : traces of a double waved subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold : a very indistinct double waved 

 antemedial line, obsolete on the white area ; orbicular and reniform 

 with whitish anuuli slightly defined by brown, the former with 

 brown centre, round, the latter with its centre defined by black 

 points, constricted at middle ; a blackish patch beyond lower angle 

 of cell ; ■i)ostmedial line double, almost obsolete towards costa, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved 

 and with series of black and white points on its outer edge, bent 

 outwards to innor margin at extremity of the white patch, some 

 slight pale points beyond it on costa ; traces of a waved subterminal 

 line ; a terminal series of black points with white point before the 

 point in submedian interspace ; cilia reddish with series of black 

 points at tips ; wholly black towards tornus. Hind wing pale 

 brown with terminal series of small dark lunules ; cilia brownish 

 white; the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with rufous, 

 an indistinct diffused dark subterminal band from costa to vein 2, 

 a terminal series of black points. 



Hab. C. China, Ichang (Hobson), 1 c? ; Hainan, Five-Fingered 

 Mfcs. (Whitehead), 2 $; Assam, Khasis, 1 $ type. E.viy. d 32, 

 $ 36 millim. 



*3086. Perigeodes lignigera. 



Busicada ligniqera, Wlk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc. vii. p. 78 (1864); Swinli. Cat. 

 Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 57, pi. 1. f. 8. 



5 . Head and thorax ochi'eous tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with 

 rufous, more strongly on inner area except at base and on terminal 

 area below the diffused oblique rufous striga from termen just below 

 apex to lower angle of cell, the tornus suffused with fuscous ; a 

 grey-white patch on middle of inner area and a larger patch on 

 middle of terminal area ; subbasal and antemedial lines represented 

 by oblique rufous striae from costa ; stigmata obsolete ; medial line 

 rufous, diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 darker and inwardly oblique to inner margin before the white 

 patch ; two slight blackish marks beyond loAver angle of cell ; a 

 pale mark on termen above tornus ; cilia pale rufous on apical half, 

 darker on inner half. Hind wing ochreous, the terminal half 

 suffused with purplish red. 



Hab. Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), type f $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



