532 NOCTIUD^E. 



2588. Grammodes stolida, Fair. Syst. Ent, p. 599; C. $ S. no. 2679. 

 Noctua cingularis, Hilbn. Noct. pi. 76, fig. 352. 



Differs from geometrica in being greyer. Fore wing with the 

 inner edge of the postmedial line bent inwards at middle ; a white 

 marginal line ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing with the band 

 white ; a round white subrnarginal spot near anal angle. 



Hab. Europe ; Africa ; Aden ; throughout N.W. and Penin- 

 sular India. Exp. 30-40 millim. 



Genus ENTOMOGRAMMA. 



Entomogramma, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 203 (1852). 

 Taramina, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 153 (1884). 



Type, E. fautrix, Gruen. 



Range. Africa ; Japan ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Andamans. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint thickened and reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd of moderate length ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 

 fore tibiae of male fringed with long hair; mid and hind tibiae 

 moderately hairy ; mid tibiae spined. Fore wing short and broad ; 

 the costa arched towards apex ; the outer margin excurved at 

 centre. 



Sect. I. (Entomogramma). Antennae of male ciliated and 

 without a ridge of scales near base. 



A. Palpi with 3rd joint somewhat short. 



2589. Entomogramma fautrix, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 204 ; Feld. Reis. 



Nov. pi. 115, fig. 5 ; C.&.S. no. 2548. 



Euscous brown ; the head blackish ; the collar fulvous. Eore 

 wing with a fulvous and dark streak below subcostal nervure from 

 the base to the apex ; the basal part of costa purplish ; ante- 

 medial and medial nearly straight lines angled below the costa ; 

 an irregularly waved postmedial line angled below costa and near 

 inner margin, followed by a straight fulvous line and a submar- 

 ginal waved line ; a black spot at end of cell. Hind wing with 

 indistinct antemedial line ; a straight medial line ; a highly 

 dentate postmedial followed by a straight fulvous line ; a submar- 

 ginal series of specks ; both wings with fine marginal ochreous 

 line. Underside suffused with fuscous, with some orange on 

 costal and outer areas, and orange lunules on disk of both wings. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans ; Java. 

 Exp. 60 millim. 



2590. Entomogramma mediocre, Wlh Cat. xxxiii, p. 949. 

 Remigia decora, Wlh. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1015 ; C. fy S. no. 2547. 

 Remigia antica, Wlh Cat xxxiii, p. 1016 ; C. 8c S. no. 2546. 



<$ . Orange-yellow ; head and collar chestnut ; wings with a 



