656 NOCTUID-li. 



terminal line, wliich is incurved at discal and snbmedian folds and 

 with small red spots before it from vein 2 to inner margin ; a 

 terminal series of small black-brown spots slightly defined on inner 

 side by white, the spot at discal fold bar-shaped and the one above 

 tornus obsolescent ; cilia grey with fine white lines at base and 

 niiddle and red-brown patch at discal fold. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown with some slight dark lunules on termen between veins 7 

 and 2 ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the under- 

 side whitish irrorated with crimson and the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with crimson, a black discoidal spot, indistinct waved 

 postmedial line excurved below costa, and terminal series of small 

 black lunules slightly defined by whitish. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 6 type. Exp. 30 millira. 



3548. lambia thuaitesi. 



Methorasa thwaitesi, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 61, pi. 151. f. 2 (1884); 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 262. 



Head and thorax dark cupreous brown mixed with grey-white ; 

 palpi whitish with black band on 2nd joint ; frons whitish : tibite 

 and tarsi banded white and brown ; abdomen reddish brown, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing reddish brown mixed with 

 whitish, with a broad diffused blackish band on postmedial area 

 from costa to vein 4, then on inner side of postmedial line to inner 

 margin ; subbasai line represented by a dark spot ; antemedial 

 line very indi-^tinct, waved, with a brownish mark before it on 

 codta ; orbicular and reniform greyish iudistinctly defined by dark 



Fig. 167. — lamhia thuaitesi, (S . }. 



brown, the former round; postmedial line brown slightly defined 

 on each side by whitish and with a black mark before it on costa,, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 traces of a waved whitish subterminal line with some blackish 

 dentate marks before it from costa to vein 4 ; terminal area whiter 

 from vein 4 to tornus ; a terminal series of small black lunules, 

 the pair at discal fold confluent and forming a larger lunule. 

 Hind wing cupreous brown ; cilia greyish mixed with brown and 

 with a darker line at middle ; the underside whitish suffused and 

 irrorated with cupreous brown, a slight black discoidal lunule, 

 traces of a postmedial line delined bv Avhitish on outer side, and 

 terminal series of small triangular black spots. 



