484 NOCTUIDJE. 



lateral tufts pale and the anal tufts ochreous and black. Fore 

 wing fuscous ; the basal area suffused with vinous purple, the rest 

 with dark green ; indistinct waved black ante- and postmedial 

 lines, the latter excurved beyond cell ; some ochreous streaks on 

 the veins at end of cell ; a dark brown diffused subapical spot and 

 small ochreous streak above centre of margin. Hind wing black 

 with the subbasal area pure white, the cilia greenish. 



Hah. Mergui (Doherty). Exp. 42 millim. Type in coll. Druce. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male fasciculated. 



2466. Catephia perdicipennis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 162, pi. 5, fig. 18; 



C. 8f S. no. 2356. 



c? . Head and thorax pale purplish fuscous variegated with olive- 

 green ; abdomen fuscous, with the dorsal tufts olive. Tore wing 

 pale purplish fuscous ; the costa olive ; a short subbasal line with 

 rufous spot inside it ; a waved antemedial double line filled in with 

 olive, and with a black striga inside it at inner margin ; the orbi- 

 cular, reniform, and claviform pinkish with dark and olive outlines ; 

 a double postmedial black line filled in with olive, very highly 

 excurved beyond cell, and with a black streak from it to centre of 

 outer margin ; some slight subapical dentate marks. Hind wing 

 with the base white ; the outer half fuscous ; underside with cell- 

 spot and crenulate postmedial line. 



Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male bipectinate, the branches very short. 



2467. Catephia inctuieta, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 340. 

 Anophia mosara, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 413. 



Fuscous black slightly tinged with red-brown. Fore wing with 

 the subbasal, antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal lines in- 

 distinct; the orbicular, reniform, and claviform indistinct, the 

 reniform large and pale in parts ; a pale fascia on vein 2 from 

 the cell to postmedial line. Hind wing white; the outer half 

 fuscous, or with slight suffusion on outer area and dark marginal 

 line. 



Hah. S. Africa ; Sind ; Alibag, near Bombay ; Ceylon. Exp. 32 

 millim. 



Sect. IV. (Zarima). Antennae of male bipectinate, the branches 



long. 



2468. Catephia dentifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 162, pi. 5, fig. 19 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2357. 



3 . Head olive and rufous ; thorax rufous, with olive patch on 

 patagia ; abdomen fuscous, the base and anal tuft rufous. Fore 

 wing dark red-brown ; an olive fascia, on inner area ; the base 

 variegated with olive ; the subbasal, antemedial, and curve d post 



