. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 NOCTUID^. B. Fore wing with tlie postmedial and subterniinal lines closely approximated, tlie forraer uot bent outwards above inner margin. a. Fore wing grey tinged with olive-green, the medial area suffused with purplish red from below costa to discal fold decipiens. b. Fore wing suffused with purple from costa to submedian fold, the inner area suffused with green muUipunctata. 6844. Cerala punctilineata. Kerala punctilineata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 330 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 62. S . Head and thorax olive-g-reen wi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 NOCTUID^. B. Fore wing with tlie postmedial and subterniinal lines closely approximated, tlie forraer uot bent outwards above inner margin. a. Fore wing grey tinged with olive-green, the medial area suffused with purplish red from below costa to discal fold decipiens. b. Fore wing suffused with purple from costa to submedian fold, the inner area suffused with green muUipunctata. 6844. Cerala punctilineata. Kerala punctilineata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 330 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 62. S . Head and thorax olive-g-reen with a few rufous and blackish scales ; pectus grey; tarsi banded with blackish; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing olive-green, the basal area irrorated with purplish red, the medial area with series of blackish points on whitish streaks and with purplish red suffusion from below costa to discal fold and oblique streak below vein 2 ; antemedial line indistinctly- double, dark, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique; the small tufts of scales at middle of cell and on disco- cellulars whitish ; postmedial line blackish brown, excurvcd below. Fig. 184.—Cerala punctilineata, (^. {. costa, oblique and slightly sinuous to submedian fold and bent outwards above inner margin ; subtermiual line grey defined on outer side by small dentate black marks from below costa to vein 3, then by a black line ; a slight whitish line just before termen with slight dark green marks before it; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing ochreous white, the patch of androconia rufous, the costal and terminal areas tinged with pale purplish. $ . Head, thorax, and fore wing greener without the purplish red tints, Ilab. SiKHiM {Lidderdale, Moller), 5 (5 , 3 2 type ; Assam, IS'agas ; PuLo Lavt (Dohertif), 1 $ . Exj). 36-44 millim. 6845. Cerala grisea, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXYII. fig. 1.) Head and thorax grey mixed with some black ; pectus and legs brownish grey, the tarsi blackish ringed
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