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NOCTUIDJE. 
Zaleodes xylochroa, n. sp. 
Head and thorax greyish ochreous tinged with red-brown 
and with a few black-brown scales especially on the patagia ; 
antennae dark brown ; frons whitish below and with black 
spots at sides ; the extremities of femora black-brown, the 
spurs with black bands ; abdomen pale grey tinged with 
brown and slightly irrorated with blackish, the ventral surface 
whitish. Fore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown and 
slightly irrorated with black ; the cell and area just below 
and beyond it tinged with grey ; a subbasal black striga 
from costa, excurved below costa ; antemedial line with 
double oblique brown striae from costa, then very indistinct 
and strongly incurved to median nervure, where it is strongly 
bent outwards, then black defined on outer side by a narrow 
red- brown band and very oblique to inner margin near base 
with an ochreous patch beyond it ; a black point in middle 
of cell ; reniform very narrow, defined by black scales 
except below where it is slightly defined by whitish ; a small 
dark spot at middle of costa and two indistinct oblique sinuous 
lines from the cell to inner margin ; postmedial line dark 
brown, oblique and defined on each side by ochreous to 
vein G and with slight dark spots on it at costa and above and 
below vein 7, then inwardly oblique and sinuous, obsolescent 
between veins 5 and 2 ; the postmedial area with small white 
spots on costa with black streaks between them, brown 
streaks defined on each side by ochreous to vein 7 and ochreous 
below vein G ; subterminal line ochreous, defined on outer side 
by an oblique red-brown fascia from apex, then slightly by 
red-brown and on inner side by an oblique red-brown striga 
below vein 8 and small spot below 7, the line oblique to 
vein 7, then waved and with blackish spot below vein 1 ; 
a series of minute white striae defined on inner side by black 
in the interspaces before termen. Hind wing ochreous 
suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with black- 
brown ; a small blackish spot at lower angle of cell ; two 
indistinct crenulate brown lines on postmedial area before 
the double dark brown slightly sinuous postmedial line, 
filled in with ochreous and curved inwards to costa and closely 
followed by the ochreous subterminal line defined on inner 
side by a fine red-brown line and also curved inwards to 
costa ; a series of dark brown points before termen and 
fine striga towards tornus, an ochreous line at base of cilia. 
Underside pale grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated 
with dark brown ; fore wing with black point in middle of 
cell and points on each side of discocellulars, a faint diffused 
medial line incurved below the cell and another diffused line 
from lower angle of cell to inner margin, postmedial line dark 
