24 NOCTUIDA. 
three arising from black specks on the costa; two black specks at 
end of cell; a pale waved submarginal line and marginal series of 
pale specks ; some pale specks on costa towards apex. Hind wing 
with pale medial line and submarginal series of specks. 
Hab. N. China; Rangoon. Hap. 26 millim. 
Genus RAPARNA. 
Raparna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 177 (1882). 
Hingula, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 180. 
Byturna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 28. 
Type, 2. ochreipennis, Moore. 
Range. Africa; Japan; China; throughout the Oriental and 
Australian regions. 
Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and thickly 
scaled, the 3rd long and naked; antenne minutely ciliated in 
male; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiz nearly naked. 
Fore wing with the apex rectangular or rounded ; the areole some- 
times very small or absent. Hind wing with vein 5 from well above 
lower angle of cell; veins 3 and 4 from cell or on a very short 
stalk, 
Secr. I. Fore wing with the apex rectangular. 
2772. Raparna digramma, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1170; C. & S. 
no. 3009. 
Bocana erubescens, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1170; C. & S. no. 2998. 
Thermesia scitula, Wik. Cat. xxxv, p. 1973; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 
i, pl. 174, fig. 6; C. & S. no. 2827. 
Byturna cucullata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 254; C. §& S. no. 3008. 
Myana atromacula, Swink. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 523, pl. 48, fig. 5; 
C. & S. no. 8031. 
Myana sopora, Swink. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pl. 48, fig. 4; 
C. & S. no. 3032. 
Marimatha lactea, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pl. 48, fig. 7; 
C. & S. no. 1867. 
Rivula sericialis, C. §& S. no. 5029 (nee Denis). 
Raparna usta, Butl. Ill. Het. vii, p. 80, pl. 133, fig. 3. 
Byturna rufifascia, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 100, pl. 148, fig. 6. 
Ochreous brown. Fore wing with ante- and postmedial indis- 
tinct waved lines and_ black 
speck at lower angle of cell; a 
very indistinct diffused pinkish 
patch beyond cell and patch 
above it on costa; traces of a 
submarginal waved line; the 
cilia pinkish. Hind wing with 
the outer area slightly suffused 
Fig. 10.—Raparna digramma,3. %. with fuscous; the cilia usually 
pinkish. 
The form rufifascia is much darker, with an oblique pinkish 
postmedial band developed on fore wing ; the outer area suffused 
with pink ; the hind wing dark fuscous: cucullata is pale ochreous, 
