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Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, moderately 

 scaled in front and with slight pointed tuft at extremity, the 3rd joint long 

 naked, and porrect ; frons smooth, with ridges of scales above and between 

 antenna? ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with scales, prothorax with spreading crest, a double dorsal ridge-like 

 crest ; mid and hind tibial spined ; abdomen dorsally flattened. Forewing nar- 

 row, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and f> from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 an;de ; from 1 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; U from cell. Hind- 

 win^ with veins 3'4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from the middle of discocel- 

 luiars ; 6*7 from upper angls ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



165-'. Epilecta accipiter. 



Epilecta accipiter. g {. 



Oenus Triph^ena. Type. 



Triphrrna. Hiibn. Verz., p. 221 (1827) - inferjecta. 



Lampra, 11 iibn. Verz., p. 221 (1*27) fimbria. 



Euschesi*, Hiibn. Verz , p. 221 (1827) janthina. 



Abagrotis, Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 4 (1890) err.dica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 hair produced to a point at extremity, the 3rd joint short, porrect, and slightly 

 fringed with hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax 

 clothed m ith hair and scales, the pro-and meta-ihorax w ith slight spreading 

 crests ; antenna; of male typically ciliated ; tibiae fringed with hair, the mid 

 and hind tibiae spined ; abdomen dorsally flattened and fringed with hair at 

 sides Forewing with the margins subparallel, the apex rounded : veins 3 and 

 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 wiih 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1662. Tkiphtkna semiuerbida. 



Genus Protagrotis. 



Type. 



Protagrotis, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M , IV, p. 655 (1903).. viralis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and moderately 

 fringed with hair, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae 

 of male with long bristles and cilia in Indian species : head and thoiax clothed 

 with hair only and without crests ; fore tibiae fringed with hair ; mid tibiae 

 without spiaei ; hiud tibiae with one spine between medial and terminal spura ; 



