530 NOCTUIDJE. 



2582. Fodina pallula, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 275; C. $ S. no. 2682. 

 Differs from oriolus in the base of the hind wing being fuscous 



black and joined to the patch near anal angle. 



Eab. N.W. Himalayas ; Assam ; Calcutta ; Ceylon. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



2583. Fodina stola, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 275 ; C. $ S. no. 2683. 

 Fodina postmaculata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 113, pi. 165, fig. 5. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown ; collar and metathorax 



oanded with whitish ; abdomen orange. Fore wing with the basal 



part of costa purplish ; a large irre- 

 gular red-brown patch on basal half 

 of wing, with ochreous edges and 

 running out to an angle on vein 2 ; 

 the area between it and the large 

 red-brown patch occupying the apical 

 area, and extending nearly to outer 

 angle, ochreous ; an ochreous mar- 

 ginal line ; the cilia grey. Hind 



Fig. 295. — Fodina stola, $ . \. wing orange, with the apical area 



fuscous black ; traces of a fuscous 



patch near anal angle. Underside orange, with dark medial patch 



to fore wing and apical patches to both wings. 



The Ceylonese form postmaculata is smaller, w T ith the band of 



the fore wing between the red-brown patches narrower and 



whiter ; hind wing with the black patch at anal angle large ; 



underside more uniform orange. 



Hah. NVW. Himalayas ; Sikhhn ; Bhutan ; Moulmein ; Ceylon. 



Exp. 36-46 millim. 



2584. Fodina cnneigera, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 79, pi. 132, fig. 5. 



Head and collar chestnut, the latter with a white band ; thorax 

 black; abdomen ochreous fuscous. Fore wing ochreous brown, 

 suffused with fuscous ; the costa purplish ; a large, black, white- 

 edged, triangular basal patch ; a smaller triangular purplish-black 

 patch on costa before apex. Hind wing brownish ochreous suf- 

 fused with fuscous ; the apical area fuscous. 



Hah. Kangra ; Ganjam ; Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. 



2585. Fodina jnncta, n. sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax dark brown ; a pale band on metathorax ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Fore wing with the base brown, followed by an 

 oblique white band ; a large irregular dark brown patch with white 

 edges on medial area, joined to a quadrate apical patch, and having 

 the medial costal area and area near outer angle pale brown ; a 

 black speck at end of cell. Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hah. Sikhim {Dudgeon). Exp. 26 millim. Type in coll. Moore. 



