224 NOCTUTD.E. 



Iii the form punctiplaga there is a large ochreous patch beyond 

 the cell of the fore wing. 



Fig. 127. — Ancara obliterans, tf. |. 

 Hob. Mlgiris ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp. 53 millhn. 



*1764. Ancara ? leueostigma, Moore, P.Z.S. 1867, p. 51; C. & S. 

 no. 2055. 



Head, collar, and patagia chestnut ; thorax and abdomen 

 ochreous grey. Fore wing chestnut; the inner margin pale ; sub- 

 basal, ante- and postmedial double waved lines, the last incurved 

 to lower angle of cell ; orbicular with dark outline ; reniform white 

 and quadrate; a black line between the stigmata, and another 

 outlining the claviform, which is represented by a dark patch ; a 

 subma.rginal dentate dark line; some dark suffusion on costa 

 before middle and on outer margin. Hind wing fuscous, pale at 



Hah. " Bengal." Exp. 54 millim. 



Sect. II. (Sydiva). Antennas minutely serrated in male, simple 

 in female ; palpi with the 3rd joint porrect ; eyes lashed. 



1765. Ancara nigrogrisea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 96 ; C. fy 8. no. 1649. 



Head and thorax black, grizzled with white ; abdomen f nscous, 

 with the dorsal tufts black ; legs ringed with white. Eore wing 

 black, thickly irrorated with white scales, and crossed by about 

 seven dentate black lines ; the stigmata indistinct ; a white speck 

 on reniform at lower angle of cell ; a submarginal series of black 

 dashes, with white specks on them ; cilia streaked with white. 

 Hind wing fuscous, with traces of a postmedial line ; cilia with a 

 series of white specks, and tipped with white. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 56 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae ciliated in male ; palpi with the 3rd joint 

 upturned ; eyes without lashes. 



1766. Ancara harfordi, n. sp. 



Head and thorax very dark red-brown ; abdomen fuscous, the 



