540 noctuiDjE. 



on the discocellulars, and a crenulate postmedial line with a series 

 of white specks on it. 



Hab. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Penang ; 

 Sumatra ; Java : Borneo ; Cape York. Exp. 48-60 millim. 

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 Sect. II. Male with the antennae serrate and fasciculate ; tufts of 



long scales from the coxse of legs ; hind legs with no tuft of 



hair from the femoro-tibial joint. 



A. Hind wing iviih the veins not distorted. 

 2607. Platyja exviola, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 91, pi. 147, fig. 18. 



J . Very dark red-brown ; the 3rd joint of palpi and tarsi 

 spotted with white. Fore wing with traces of a waved antemedial 

 line and of large orbicular and reniform stigmata ; two small ring- 

 marks beyond the cell ; a very indistinct postmedial sinuous line, 

 highly angled beyond the cell, and bent back above an amphora- 

 shaped brown mark on vein 2 to below middle of cell ; a sinuous 

 whitish streak from apex ; the outer area suffused with purple ; a 

 marginal series of white specks. Hind wing with the outer area 

 suffused with purple ; postmedial and marginal series of white 

 specks. Underside with postmedial series of white specks ; a 

 pale sinuous apical streak. 



Hab. Nilgiris. Exp. 60 millim. 



*2608. Platyja? torsilinea, Guen. Nod. iii, p. 240. 



Black-brown. Wings irrorated with blue-grey, the antemedial 

 line straight and slightly oblique ; two fine purplish medial lines 

 striated with rufous, the area between them greyish or reddish 

 yellow ; postmedial line augled below the costa, then recurved from 

 vein 2 to lower angle of cell, and with a large series above inner 

 margin ; the orbicular and reniform prominent and brown, the latter 

 with two small white ring-marks beyond it and a speck above them 

 on costa; a fine white line from the angle of the postmedial line 

 to apex. Hind wing with a purplish submarginal line striated 

 with rufous, obsolete towards costa. Underside grey-brown, with 

 a medial series of white specks on the veins of both wings. 



Hab. " Central India." Exp. 48 millim. 



B. Hind wing of male with the discocellidars almost obsolete, 

 veins 6 and 7 curved upwards, 4 and 5 doivnwards. 



2609. Platyja ciacula, Sicinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xii, p. 263. 



<$ . Differs from exviola in the markings of the fore wing being 

 much more prominent ; the lines ochreous ; the antemedial line 

 straight and oblique; the postmedial line white speckled, the mark 

 enclosed by it ill-defined ; the triangular chocolate patch on costa 

 before apex prominent. Hind wing with sinuous white-speckled 

 postmedial line. Both wings with the outer half suffused with 

 purple throughout. 



Hab. Nagas ; Andamans. Exp. 62 millim. 



