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NOCTUIDjB. 
between them on costa towards apex ; subterminal line 
whitish defined on inner side by diffused brown, angled out- 
wards at vein 7, then slightly waved ; a series of minute 
rather triangular black spots before termen and a fine black 
terminal line ; cilia red-brown with fine whitish line at base. 
Hind wing whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with 
black, the terminal area darker ; an elliptical discoidal spot 
defined by blackish and a medial shade formed by black 
irroration from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black, 
sinuous, incurved below vein 4 ; traces of a diffused waved 
pale subterminal line ; a series of minute rather triangular 
blackish spots before termen and a fine black terminal line ; 
cilia red-brown with a white line at base. Underside whitish 
suffused with red -brown ; both wings with waved dark medial 
and postmedial lines, the latter defined on outer side by white, 
and faint whitish subterrainal line with a dark shade before 
it on the hind wing. 
Hab. Philippines, Luzon, Los Banos {Baker), 2 8 $ 
type ; Mt. Makiling {Baker), 4 <$, 1 9- Exp. 18-22 millim. 
Genus ZIGERA. 
YAgera. Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 182 (1862) 
Type. 
orbifera, Walk. 
Zigera tricuspida, n. sp. 
d*. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed 
with some greyish ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen 
white. Fore wing dark reddish brown tinged with purple ; 
a curved blackish subbasal line defined on outer side by whitish 
from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line blackish, incurved in 
the cell and at vein 1 and excurved in submedian interspace ; 
a slight dark spot in middle of cell and discoidal bar ; an 
indistinct dark medial line ; postmedial line blackish, oblique 
and sinuous to vein 2, then incurved and angled outwards at 
vein 1, a large creamy-white patch beyond it from costa to 
vein 2, its outer edge strongly angled outwards at vein 7 
and excurved to near termen between veins 4 and 2, defined 
on outer side by the faint dark subterminal line defined on 
inner side by whitish towards costa and inner margin ; a 
series of black points before termen with small creamy white 
spots beyond them. Hind wing dark red-brown ; traces of 
two dark medial lines except on costal area ; postmedial 
line blackish defined on outer side by white towards inner 
margin, dentate, excurved beyond lower angle, of cell ; a 
sinuous whitish subterminal line ; a series of dark points 
before termen with small whitish spots beyond them. Under- 
side dark reddish brown ; fore wing with broad oblique 
