468 NOCTUID^!. 



postmedial waved black line with an indistinct fuscous line beyond 

 it ; a submarginal indistinct waved line. 

 Hob. Karachi ; Mhow. Exp. 84 millim. 



b'. Mid legs of male with a tuft of long hair from the 

 femoro-tibial joint. 



2422. Polydesma costimacula, Guen. Nod. ii, p. 429 ; C, fy S. no. 2293. 

 Kemigia triangulata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1017. 



Ochreous-brown ; the head and collar black ; abdomen tinged 

 with fuscous. Fore wing with antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal black patches on costa ; a dark line on discocellulars, 

 expanding into a small square spot at lower angle of cell ; traces 

 of waved medial, postmedial, and submarginal lines and of two 

 fuscous submarginal spots. Hind wing with the apical area 

 fuscous, continued to inner margin as a diffused submarginal band. 



Hal. Sylhet. Exp. 46 millim. 



b. (Polydesma). Male with the basal area of hind wing clothed 

 with long silky hair on underside. 



2423. Polydesma umbricola, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag., Lep. p. 108, 



pi. 13. fig. 5. 

 Polydesma laudula, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 441. 

 Polydesma boarmoides, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 441 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



ii'i, pi. 156, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 2446 (part.). 

 Polydesma mastrucata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. Ill, fig. 31. 

 Polydesma scriptilis, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 442 ; C. 8f S. no. 2449. 



Brown suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with indistinct waved 

 subbasal, antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines, each arising 

 from a black spot on the costa ; a crenulate pale submarginal line 

 with some fuscous suffusion inside it ; a marginal series of lunulate 

 spots. Hind wing with indistinct antemedial and medial sinuous 

 lines ; a crenulate submarginal pale line with fuscous suffusion 

 inside it ; a marginal series of lunulate spots. Underside with the 

 area inside the crenulate submarginal line of both wings broadly 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. W. and S. Africa; Madagascar; Formosa; throughout 

 India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans. Exp. 50 millim. 



2424. Polydesma otiosa, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 442; C. S,- S. no. 2448. 

 Alamis brevipalpis, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1051 ; C. fy S. no. 2446 



(part.). 



Differs from umbricola in being smaller and paler; the fuscous 

 suffusion on underside confined to the costal area of hind wing ; 

 the whole of the hind wing being silky ochreous in male. 



Hab. 1ST. W. Himalayas;' Sylhet; Nilgiris. Exp. 44 millim. 



