582 



NOCTUID^. 



subbasal line represented by minute black streaks below cosfa and 

 cell with a minute streak beyond it in cell ; antemedial line black, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, then excurved and bent 

 inwards to inner margin, an oblique black striga before it from sub- 

 median fold to vein 1 Avith short black streak below it ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniforra represented by an oblique black striga on upper 

 discocellular and two white points at lower angle of cell ; a dark 

 medial line oblique from costa to reniform, excurved beyond lower 

 angle of cell, then oblique and sinuous ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line slight, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique 

 to vein 4, then inwardly oblique and incurved at submedian fold, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white and 

 dentate from costa to vein 6, then very indistinct, waved, with dark 

 streaks beyond it in the interspaces ending in slight terminal lunules ; 

 cilia with slight white striae at base. Hind wing purplish red- 

 brown, the basal area whitish ; cilia whitish with a red-brown line 

 through them ; the underside purplish white irrorated with purplish 

 red-brown, a slight black discoidal point, postmedial line bent 

 outwards below costa, then crenulate, a terminal series of slight 

 brown lunules. 



Bab. Peeak, Goping (Kunstler), 1 J type. Ea:jp. 28 millim. 



3450. Eriopns clava. (Plate CXXI. fig. 16.) 



Apamea clava, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 66. 



2 . Heiid and thorax purplish red-brown slightly mixed with 

 whitish; frons white with black bar above; tegulse with black 

 medial line ; patagia with slight black streak near upper edge ; mid 

 and hind tibise streaked with black, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface white mixed with red- 

 brown and with sublateral and ventral series of black striae. Tore 

 wing pale purplish pink irrorated with purplish brown and blackish ; 

 a slight black streak at base of subcostal nervure and black streak 

 below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by an oblique black 

 striga from costa ; antemedial line slight, black defined by purplish 

 on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then excurved and 

 sinuous, with slight black streaks before it in submedian fold and 

 below vein 1 ; elaviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular with 

 purplish annulus, round ; reniform with pinkish line on inner edge 

 followed by a black line, angled inwards on median nervure, then 

 pinkish with slight black striga in centre and two purplish points 

 at lower extremity, the upper with black streak from it to post- 

 medial line, the lower with black point on outer edge ; a faint 

 waved diffused dark line from beyond lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by purplish, with 

 white striga from costa, bent outwards below costa, then waved, 

 oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique and excurved at vein 1, 

 some white points beyond it on costa with blackish streaks between 



