512 NOCTUIBiE. 



pnbterminal line indistinct, greyish defined by a black line on inner 

 side, rather diffused and waved towards costa, then dentate ; a 

 terminal series of dentate blact marks ; cilia rufous with a brown 

 line through them. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal half 

 sufi'uscd with reddish brown ; a faint discoidal lunula, sinuous post- 

 medial line and fine waved terminal line ; cilia pale rufous ; the 

 underside yellowish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal lunule and indistinct curved diflPused post- 

 medial line. 



Hob. SiKHiM Tibet, Tatung (Hohson), 2 (S ,1 $ ; Sikhim {Elives), 

 5 (^ , 4 $ . Exi). 40-42 milfim. 



3374, Oroplexia retrahens. (Plate CXX. fig. 12.) 



Hadena retrahens, Wlk. xi. 757 (1857) ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 95, 

 pi. 162. f. 6 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 227. 



Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with greyish ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons yellowish with black lateral bars ; tegulse 

 with black line near tips ; tarsi fuscous with yellowish rings ; 

 abdomen yellowish suffused with brown. Fore wing grey-brown 

 slightly irrorated with black and tinged with yellowish below the 

 cell, a pale yellow streak on inner margin except towards base ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa and cell ; 

 a diffused black patch on inner area before the antemedial line, 

 which is double filled in with yellowish, angled outwards below 

 costa, then nearly straight oblique ; claviform dark brown defined 

 by black, large and extending to cell ; orbicular and reniform 

 yellow-brown with yellowish annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter with its centre defined by brown, its inner edge 

 sfraight and with diffused black before and beyond it; postmedial 

 line double, brown filled in with yellow and defined by yellow on 

 outer side, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and 

 bent round above inner margin to antemedial line, some yellowish 

 points beyond it on costa ; a diffused black bar from costa before 

 the subterminal line which is represented by a series of greyish 

 strise defined on inner side by dentate black marks and with slight 

 black spots on outer side, angled outwards at vein 7 and very 

 slightly excurved at middle ; the apex greyish ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia grey-brown with waved black line 

 through them. Hind wing yellowish suffused with brown ; a 

 curved brown postmedial line ; cilia yellowish with a slight brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused and irrorated with brown ; a rather diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Kashmtb, Goorais Valley (Leech), 1 $ ; Sikhim : Assam 

 (Badr/ley), 1 cJ , Khasis, 1 $ ; Ceylon? loc. err., 1 5 type, Exj), 

 40 millim. 



