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noctuida;. 
middle of termen ; a red-brown terminal line and pale line at 
base of cilia except towards apex. Underside grey-brown 
with a reddish tinge ; fore wing with faint medial, postmedial 
and subterminal brown lines, the postmedial line excurved 
below costa and with some whitish beyond it on costa, some 
whitish on apical part of costa. Hind wing with oblique 
brown medial and postmedial lines and curved grey sub- 
terminal line defined on inner side by brown. 
Hob. Singapore (Ridley), 2 $ type ; N. Borneo, Limbang 
(Everett), 1 <$. Exp. 50 millim. 
Mecodina aequilinea. n. s|>. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown tinged with purplish 
grey ; palpi with the 3rd joint whitish ; spurs ringed with 
whitish. Fore wing brown suffused with purple-grey ; traces 
of a sinuous brown antemedial line ; a brown medial shade, 
broad towards costa and narrowing to inner margin, its outer 
edge oblique below discal fold ; a slight pale curved discoidal 
striga placed on the brown shade ; a slight curved brown 
subterminal line. Hind wing brown suffused with purple- 
grey ; a narrow brown medial shade, rather diffused on inner 
side ; a rather diffused brown postmedial line slightly excurved 
to vein 5. Underside brown tinged with purple-grey ; fore 
wing with faint brown subterminal line ; hind wing with 
rather diffused curved brown medial and postmedial lines. 
Hah. Assam, Dibrugrah ( Ward), 1 2 type. Exp. 44 millim. 
Mecodina apicia. n. ap. 
$. Head and tegula) red-brown ; thorax and abdomen 
pale red-brown tinged with purple-grey ; palpi, pectus, legs 
and ventral surface of abdomen dark brown, the extreme 
tips of palpi white. Fore wing red-brown suffused with 
purple-grey ; a faint curved red-brown subbasal striga from 
costa ; antemedial line indistinct, red-brown, waved ; a 
minute chocolate-brown spot in middle of cell and small 
grey discoidal lunule defined faintly by brown : traces of a 
brown medial line, oblique to the discoidal lunule, inwardly 
oblique and sinuous below the cell ; traces of a. brown post- 
medial line, oblique and defined on outer side by white towards 
costa, then curved ; an oblique conical deep chocolate- 
brown patch from postmedial part of costa to vein (>, its 
outer edge defined by whitish and excurved below vein 7. 
some whitish suffusion beyond it at apex and traces of a curved 
subterminal series of dark brown points in the interspaces 
from it to inner margin ; a slight waved dark brown line jusf 
before termen ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing red-brown 
