392 



NOCTUID^!. 



B. Fore wing with the outer margin not angled, the cilia non- 

 crenulate ; tibia; almost naked. 



2259. Eutelia deleta, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 81, pi. 146, fig. 15. 



Greyish fuscous brown ; head and rnetathorax dark ; palpi with 

 a pale spot at base of 2nd joint in front ; base of abdomen pale 

 above. Fore wing greyish ; the outer area suffused with brown ; 

 traces of several oblique lines ; a sinuous postmedial double line 

 angled below costa and excurved round end of cell, then oblique 

 to centre of inner margin. Hind wing dark fuscous brown ; the 

 underside pale, with waved lines on outer area. 



Bab. Sikhim; Nilgiris; Ceylon. Exp. 24 milliin. 



2260. Eutelia cinctipalpis, ~~Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 820; Hmpsn. 111. 



Het. ix, pi. 163, fig. 16 ; C. 8f 8. no. 2202. 

 ^Egilia angulata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 146 ; C. fy S. no. 2382. 



2 . Differs from deleta in the lines of the fore wing being less 

 oblique and more waved ; the postmedial line not better defined 

 than the others nor angled below the costa ; palpi with pale spots 

 on 2nd joint in front. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Manipur ; Nagas ; Ceylon. Exp., <$ 30, $ 28 

 millim. 



2261. Eutelia albiceps, n. sp. 



$ . Palpi whitish, black at base ; the vertex of head whitish ; 

 thorax dark purplish brown; abdomen dark red, with the base 

 purplish. Pore wing with the basal half dark purplish with 

 indistinct subbasal line, obliquely curved green an tern edial line, and 

 bounded by the pale elongate reniform and a double dark line from 

 median nervure to inner margin ; the outer area pale purplish 

 fuscous, with three indistinct rufous waved postmedial lines angled 

 below the costa, and with a large black V-mark on them beyond 

 cell ; a triangular rufous patch on costa before apex, with a green 

 spot below it ; an indistinct w T aved submarginal line. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous, with traces of a pale postmedial line and some 

 rufous patches near anal angle ; underside greyish, with cell-spot 

 and three waved lines. 



Hab. Tenasserim Valley (Doherty). Exp. 22 millim. Type in 

 coll. Druce. 



2262. Eutelia obscura, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 146 ; C. $ S. no. 2384. 



Head and collar chocolate; thorax dark purplish red-brown; 

 abdomen paler. Fore wing dark fuscous red-brown ; the costal 

 area purplish ; a rufous speck in cell ; some black and rufous 

 strigae on the apical part of outer margin. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Borneo. Exp. 30 millim. 



