442 Addenda to the Subfamily Noctuinae. By W. Warren. 



98. Genus : > o«la v ia Guen. 



parallela. N. parallela Wilem. (75 a). Forewing brownish rufous, with three slightly darker lines; the inner curved; 



the outer outcurved round cell, with a faint bend on vein 6, then sinuous to middle of inner margin; the 

 subterminal nearly straight, with a slight kink at vein 3; hindwing luteous dusted with grey, with a med- 

 ian and double outer curved lines; terminal line dark in both wings. Central China and Japan. 



assimilata. N. assimilata Wilem. Forewing brownish rufous with four darker oblique lines; the inner indented 



below middle; the median diffuse, passing over the discal spot; outer line incurved below cell to join the 

 median; subterminal indented below middle; hindwing luteous white, with two darker lines; both wings 

 with dark terminal line. 1 $ from Hakodate, Yesso. 



distisigna. N. discisigna Moore ( = lunifera Moore). (75 1). Forewing ochreous white; an inner fulvous band with black 



speckling, almost straight; a broad median band with waved line on its outer edge; a prominent white 

 lunule at end of cell; subterminal line dentate lunulate edged with white; terminal dark specks; hindwing 

 with slight fuscous suffusion; outer and subterminal dark lines, outwardly angled, obsolete towards costa, 

 the outermost with pale border. An Indian insect recorded by Wileman from Hondo, Japan. 



98a. Genus: Catada Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth, rounded; palpi slender, sickle-shaped, naked; second segment taper- 

 ing to extremity well above vertex of head, third very long and slender; antennae of <$ thickened and 

 flattened, or minutely ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; forewing with vein 7 from upper 

 angle of cell, 6 from below it; hindwing with vein 5 from middle of discocellular. Type C. vagalis Walk. 



Sect. I. Forewing with veins 9 and 10 absent. 



fatua. C. fatua Warr . (75 h). Forewing pale grey with fuscous shading ; median area blackish, bounded by sinuous 



inner and outer lines, the latter ex curved beyond cell, where it encloses a black spot; a pale subterminal 

 spot above middle; hindwing with dark sinuous median and pale sinuous subterminal lines obsolete at costa; 

 palpi black at base; in both wings the termen is indented below apex. Described from the Khasia Hills, India ; 

 recorded by Wileman from Hondo, Japan. 



102. Genus: Adrapsa Walk. 



ablualis. A. ablualis Walk. (75 h, i). Forewing brownish fuscous ; the costal streak often pale ; outer line white, shortly 



angled below costa, then oblique inwards, sometimes crenulate; inner line very obscure; median dark below 

 middle; a white dot in cell and white spot at end; subterminal line whitish, waved, with a more prominent 

 white crescent beyond cell; hindwing with white central line; the $ is darker, with all the white markings 

 less prominent except sometimes costal streak of forewing. Antennae of $ with thickened tufts of dark 

 scales on inner side to middle; the outer side with uniseriate pectinations from near base. This species, de- 

 scribed in the first instance from Ceylon, and occurring throughout the islands to Australia, is recorded from 

 Kiushiu by Wileman. 



107. Genus: Bleptiiia Guen. 



caligino8a. B. caliginosa Wilem. (751). Forewing sooty brown, tinged with purplish; a whitish lunule at end of cell, 



followed by the wavy whitish outer line, which becomes subobsolete below middle; subterminal line sinuous, 

 whitish, interrupted below costa; terminal line black, interrupted, edged finely with white; hindwing dark 

 fuliginous, paler along costa. Described from a <$ taken at Hakodate, Yesso, Japan. 



mcdialis. B. medialis Wilem. Forewing whitish brown, freckled and clouded with darker brown; lines black, 



