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NOCTUIDjE. 



Sect. I. {Catephia). Antennae of male almost simple. 



A. Fore legs in male with thick tufts of scales from coxa?, and very 

 long fringe of hair from femora and tihice. 



2460. Catephia linteola, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 44 j Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 

 pi. 159, fig. 1 ; C.fyS. no. 2347. 



Head and thorax black and dark red-brown with a purplish 

 gloss ; abdomen black, Fore wing red-brown more or less suf- 

 fused with black ; a short subbasal line ; waved antemedial, medial, 



Fig. 270. — Catephia linteola, <$ . 



and postmedial lines, the last highly angled outwards beyond end 

 of cell ; a small black spot or ring-spot in cell and indistinct reni- 

 f orm spot with ring-spot below it ; traces of an irregularly waved 

 submarginal line ; the apex irrorated with white. Hind wing 

 black, with a broad pure white medial band not reaching inner 

 margin ; the apex white, and some white submarginal spots more 

 or less developed towards anal angle. 



Hah. S. Africa ; Madagascar ; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma; Borneo; Australia; Marshall Islands. Exp. 56-66 millim. 



B. Fore leg of male without the tufts of scales and long fringes. 



2461. Catephia flavescens, Butl. Ill, Bet. vii, p. 74, pi. 131, fig. 12. 



Head and collar ochreous ; thorax rufous suffused with black ; 

 abdomen blackish. Fore wing ochreous, with subbasal, antemedial, 

 postmedial, and submarginal waved lines, the postmedial excurved 

 beyond the cell ; the orbicular and reniform large with dark out- 

 lines; dark patches on costa at centre and at apex; the inner 

 area blackish, with some blue scales near outer angle. Hind wing 

 yellowish, with the outer area black-brown, leaving the apex 

 yellow. 



Hah. Dharmsala ; Sikhiin. Exp. 38 millim. 



2462. Catephia acronyctoides, Guen. Nod. iii, p. 47 ; C. $ S. no. 2352. 

 Anophia olivescens, Guen. Nod. iii, p. 48, pi. 14, fig. 11 ; C. fy 8. 



no. 2355. 

 Anophia discistriga, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1128. 

 Anophia epundoides, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 917 j C. fy S. no. 2354. 



