49 NOCTUIDA. 
Sect. I. (Bleptina). Males with the palpi not tufted with long 
hair, nor recurved over head; fore wing with no costal 
fold. 
A. Hore tibie of male with a sheath enclosing a mass of 
flocculent scales. 
2811. Bleptina hadenalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 85; C. & S. 
no. 2954, 
Herminia restricta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 192; C. & S. no. 2959. 
Herminia ruptistigma, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. vili, p. 100, pl. 148, 
fie, 20. 
3. Pale brown. Fore wing with traces of an antemedial sinuous 
line; a dark lunule at end of cell; an indistinct sinuous post- 
medial line incurved below cell, and with dark patches on it beyond 
the cell and above inner margin; a sinuous submarginal line; a 
marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing with traces of medial 
line, postmedial band, and submarginal line ; a marginal series of 
dark lunules; underside paler, with speck at end of cell and crenu- 
late medial and postmedial lines. 
2. With well-marked pale submarginal line to hind wing. 
In ruptistigma, from the Nilgiris, vein 10 of the fore wing is 
given otf beyond the areole. 
Hab. Sikhim; Assam. Hep. 38 millim. 
2812. Bleptina nigella, Swink. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 265. 
@. Smoky black. Fore wing with traces of waved ante- and 
postmedial lines; a black speck at end of cell: hind wing with 
traces of a waved medial line: both wings with a submarginal 
series of minute white specks and marginal series of black specks. 
Underside suffused with grey; both wings with cell-spot and 
waved postmedial and submarginal grey lines. 
Hab, Rangoon. xp. 32 millim. 
2813. Bleptina apidanusalis, Wk. Cat. xvi, p. 240; C. § S. no. 2951. 
@. Dull reddish brown. Fore wing with indistinct antemedial, 
medial, and postmedial minutely dentate lines; a white spot at 
end of cell; prominent submarginal and marginal lunulate lines. 
Hind wing with antemedial and medial minutely dentate lines, and 
submarginal lunulate line. Underside greyer; fore wing with 
dark subapical marks beyond the postmedial line. 
Hab. “ N. India.” Hep. 30 millim. 
2814. Bleptina vialis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 192; C. § S. no. 2963. 
3. Fuscous. Fore wing with a broad antemedial pale oblique 
band traversed by a dark line near its inner edge ; a minute speck 
in the cell, and a dark lunule on the discocellulars; some black 
beyond and below end of cell; a black mark at apex. Hind wing 
