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NOCTUID^. 
the apex ; the lower radial from just above the lower angle of the cell. Hind wing with the 
outer margin orenulate and produced at the third median nervule; radial from just above 
the lower angle of the cell ; second and third medians on a short footstalk. 
Pterocyclophora pictimargo. (Plate CLXV. fig. 16.) 
Expanse 2^^ inches. 
Female. Fore wing ochreous, iri^orated with black and suffused with red-brown and 
purple tints ; rcniform ochreous white and indistinct; an indistinct dark red waved line from 
the costa beyond the cell, bent inwards below the cell ; a small dai'k red triangular spot 
between the radials ; a straight dark red submarginal line from below the apex, with a dark 
brown waved line outside it ; the area beyond it brown, bearing a white lunulate line and a 
white antecilial line. Hind wing yellow ; an irregular brown medial band ; a postmedial dark 
line from the radial to the inner margin ; the apical area dark brown ; the marginal area 
marked as in the fore wing ; the red line broader and the brown line more waved. Cilia 
of both wings chestnut-coloured and highly crenulate. Underside pale ochreous speckled 
with brown, except the inner area of the fore wing ; a brown band from the upper angle of 
the cell to the middle of the interno-median interspace ; a similar postmedial band from the 
radial ; a brown line from tlie apex to the outer angle, obsolescent towards the apex ; a 
submarginal series of specks. Hind wing with these markings repeated. 
OPHIUSIN^E. 
Melipotis cyllaria, Cram., var. fusifera, JVlk. (Plate CLXV. fig. 20.) 
Achsea fusifera, Wll: Cat. xiv. p. 1398. 
Expanse 2 inches. 
Head and thorax pale brown ; palpi ringed with black ; collar and patagia streaked with 
black ; abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing pale brown, the veins slightly streaked with black ; 
some slight black streaks in the interspaces towards outer margin ; more prominent subapical 
streaks, and very strongly developed streaks on the inner area; an oblique double dentate 
line from the outer margin at second median nervule to the inner margin ; traces of ante- 
medial and postmedial curved lines. Hind wing fuscous, with a waved medial white band, a 
submarginal spot between the first and second median nervules ; white marginal and cilial 
patches at apex and towards anal angle. Underside similar to that of the typical form. 
Ansa filipalpis, TF/k. (Plate CLXV. fig. 14.) 
Ansa filipalpis, Wll: Cat. xv. p. 1731. 
Expanse If inch. 
Male. Head and thorax dark reddish brown ; palpi ochreous brown below and at apex ; 
