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NOCTUIDiE.— OETHOSIID.E. 
TEIPH^NA, Ochs. 
Triphaena fuscicollis. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 4.) 
Nearest to T. fimbria. The primaries a little broader, pale reddish clay-coloured; the 
costa and basal two thirds smeared with brassy bronze, two divergent slender grey lines 
limiting the central area, the inner line oblique, the outer transverse, slightly incurved 
towards costa ; a rounded black spot at the posterior fourth of the outer line ; a marginal 
series of blackish dots and a slender undulated deep ochreous line at base of fringe : 
secondaries bright ochreous, basi-costal area brassy ; a zigzag abbreviated black band 
running obliquely from the second subcostal to the submedian vein ; a tapering series of six 
subconfluent black spots close to outer margin from first subcostal to first median branch : 
head and collar deep chocolate-brown ; thorax grey, shining ; abdomen testaceous, with 
greyish lateral and anal tufts. Wings below ochreous, the costal and external areas suffused 
with brownish grey : primaries with a broad triangular blackish patch forming a broad belt, 
with straight outer edge, from costal vein to near the inner margin ; marginal dots and fringe 
as above : secondaries with a black dot at end of cell and a black band as above, but continued 
as a straight tapering stripe to costal vein ; fringe gi'ey, with a yellow basal line : body below 
brownish grey. Expanse of wings 55 millim. 
Dharmsala ; at sugar in July. 
" A very rare species. The only pair taken in three years' pretty constant sugaring in 
the same place and thirteen years' collecting in the district." — Hocking. 
T. fuscicollis is the only species of the genus which has the head and collar deep brown 
and in which the band of the secondaries does not form a broad external border. 
OETHOSIID^. 
SEMIOPHORA, Steph. 
Semiophora orthosioides. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 1.) 
Upperside smoky cinereous ; pattern very similar to Orthosia Iota of Europe^ excepting 
that the submarginal whitish line is still moi'e regular and, instead of having a red inner 
edging, shows only three or four small spots of this colour at intervals ; the fringe also is 
considerably wider, the thorax darker and the abdomen paler. The colouring in many 
examples is much paler than in the type and resembles that of Ortliosia kindermanni, but 
still with the same straight submarginal whitish line edged with red spots. The under 
surface, again, resembles that of O. lota. Expanse of wings 29 millim. 
Mundi ; at sugar in March. 
Evidently a common species. 
