578 



NOCTUIDJE. 



Phisia agens, Feld. Beis. Nov. pi. 110, fig. 32. 



Plusiodonta auri^icta, Moore, Lep.Atk. p. 150 ; C. § S. no. 2181. 



Head and collar rufous ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown. Pore 

 wing red-brown suffused with golden bronze and more or less 

 irrorated with blue-grey scales ; indistinct antemedial and medial 

 waved lines ; an oblique double sinuous postmedial line angled 

 below the costa ; the orbicular and reniform indistinct ; a very 

 irregularly sinuous submarginal golden band with dark edges, 



interrupted at vein 3. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous ; the cilia pale. 



The form auripicta is rather darker 

 and more marked with blue-grey. 



Larva purplish black with grey 

 specks and streaks ; the 7th and 11th 

 somites with pinkish patches ; head 

 reddish. 



Sab. Throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma; Andamans; Java. Exp. 

 32-36 millim. 



Pig. 323. 



Plusiodonta ccelonota, <$, 



Genus TINOLIUS. 



Tinolius, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 621 (1855). 



Type, T. eburneigvMa, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; throughout continental India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Andamans ; Cambodia. 



palpi obliquely porrect and hairy ; antennae bi pectinated in 



Fig. 324. — Tinolius eburneigutta, $ . \. 



male, ciliated in female ; thorax without tufts ; abdomen with 

 dorsal tufts. Pore wing with vein 10 from beyond the end of areole. 

 Larva? with two pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



2691. Tinolius Eburneigutta, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 621 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 iii, pi. 171, figs. 10, 10 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 773. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson ; collar, meso- and rneta- 

 thorax with paired white-edged black spots ; abdomen with 

 segmental lateral black bands. Pore wing bright red-brown; a 

 white speck at base ; a round white spot at middle of cell and two 

 at end of it two or three white marks on centre of inner margin ; 



