230 noctuid^;. 



lunulate postmedial lines, which are much incurved below end of 

 cell ; a series of submarginal white points with dark lunules before 

 them and marginal specks beyond them. Abdomen and hind wing 

 dark brown ; underside with cell-spot and irregularly waved line ; 

 both wings with a series of marginal spots. 

 Bab. Sikhim. Exp. 58 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male bi pectinate, the branches short. 



1783. Eurois chalybeata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 665 ; C. 8? S. no. 2071. 

 Mamestra suffusa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 52 ; C. $ S. no. 2081. 



<$ • Head and thorax dark red-brown with a ferruginous tinge ; 

 abdomen darker. Fore wing ferruginous red; the subbasal and 

 antemedial double waved lines indistinct ; the orbicular, reniform, 

 and claviform with dark outline, the reniform with a fulvous or 

 rarely white spot on its outer edge ; the curved postmedial double 



Fig. 129. — Eurois chalybeata, $ 



line lunulate ; the submarginal irregularly waved line with pale 

 outer edge ; a lunulate marginal dark line ; three pale specks 

 on costa towards apex. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia with an 

 ochreous line through them ; underside with cell-spot and post- 

 medial line. 



$ . Duller and less ferruginous ; fore wing with the apex more 

 produced and outer margin more oblique ; one specimen with the 

 margin ochreous. 



Bab. Kulu ; Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp., <$ 48, £ 58 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. 

 1784. Eurois involuta, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 201 ; C. 8? S. no. 2141. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish with a fuscous tinge ; 

 palpi blackish at sides. Fore wing black, with the costal area and 

 veins whitish ; three subbasal white streaks (one oblique below 

 costa, one angled below the cell, the third curved above inner 

 margin); two postmedial streaks (one curved beyond lower angle 

 of cell, the other angled below vein 2) ; a highly dentate inter- 

 rupted submarginal white line; a white marginal band. Hind 

 wing fuscous, whitish on basal and inner areas, with a cell-spot 

 aud postmedial line. 



Bab. KW. -Himalayas. Exp. 52 millim. 



