264 NOCTUID^E. 



dark cell-spot ; a greyish patch at anal angle, on which is an orange 

 and dark mark. Underside pale, with large dark cell-spot to each 

 wing, very prominent on hind wing ; a diffused postmedial rufous 

 band. 



Hob. Chekiang, China ; Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 28 millim. 

 Type in B. M. 



1873. Caradrina ochreimargo, n. sp. 



2 • Head and thorax pale dusky reddish ; abdomen fuscous, with 

 ochreous anal tuft. Eore wing pale dusky reddish, with obliquely 

 sinuous antemedial line ; the orbicular a small pale spot ; reni- 

 form pale with dark centre, and crossed by an indistinct medial 

 line angled at lower end of cell ; an excurved minutely dentate 

 postmedial line ; traces of an irregularly sinuous submarginal line ; 

 a fuscous patch at centre of outer margin ; a marginal series of 

 black specks. Hind wing fuscous, the outer area darkest ; the 

 margin and cilia bright ochreous. Underside of fore wing fuscous, 

 with broad ochreous margin ; hind wing ochreous, with fuscous 

 postmedial line, the area beyond it towards anal angle fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim (fflives). Exp. 40 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



b. Antennae bipectinated in male. 



1874. Caradrina pectinata, n. sp. 



S . Pale ochreous. Eore wing with indistinct waved subbasal, 

 ante- and postmedial lines ; the orbicular and reniform barely 

 traceable ; an irregularly dentate indistinct submarginal line. 

 Hind wing white, the margin slenderly fuscous. 



Hob. Nagas, 1500 feet (Doherty). Exp. 28 millim. Type in coll. 

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B. (Leucocosmia). Male with a cleft corneous ridge clothed with scales 

 on vertex of head ; abdomen clothed with woolly pile ; build stout. 



1 875. Caradrina reclusa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 185. 

 Kadinacra thoracica, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 31, pi. 148, fig. 4 ; 



C. fy S. no. 1967. 

 Leucocosmia ceres, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 394, pi. ix, 



fig. 10. 

 Caradrina euthusa, Hmpsn. 111. Bet. viii. p. 79, pi. 145, fig. 1. 



2 . Pale chestnut-brown. Eore wing with very faint traces of 

 the usual markings ; a prominent ochreous postmedial line slightly 

 curved from the costa to vein 2, and not waved. Hind wing paler. 



J . With the collar and abdomen black ; the 2nd joint of palpi 

 black. Eore wing with the basal area clothed with ochreous hair ; 

 hind wing with the base yellowish ; some specimens have a black 

 speck in cell of fore wing and series of specks on the postmedial 

 line and margin. 



Sab. Nilgiris; Ceylon; Borneo; Eiji. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



