TRILOPHIDIA. I'^Q 



at the extremity, froutal ridge imperfectly sulcated ; lateral carinse 

 starting from near the lower extremity of the eyes, and angulated. 

 Pronottim with a nearly straight carina, cut hy the principal sulcus 

 before the middle, and angulated belund ; defiexed lobes higher 

 than broad. Tegmina long and narrow, brown, the costal area 

 almost equally divided by the principal intercalated nervure ; 

 wings long, narrow. Hind femora moderately broad 



Several of the species curiously resemble the Noctuid genus 

 A</rotis. 



Key to the Species. 



1 (4) Crest of the prouotum deeply cut by 



two sulci. „,, , -, ,Q 



2 (3) Win"-s not yellow at the base ammlatci, ihb., p. liJ. 



3 (2) Wings yellow at the base turpis, Walk., p. 149. 



4 (1) Crest of the pronotum only shghtly 



indented by the sulci cristdla, Stal, p. loO. 



172. Trilophidia anmilata, Thunb. 



Gn/Uus (muiihtfu.^'nnmhev^, Mem. Acad. Petersb. v, 1815, p. 234 ; 



^^;y/«s^ltzSVTliu^ Mem. Acad. Petersb. v, 1815, p. 235; ix, 



1824, pp. 398, 422. . .^ 



Trilophidia annulata, var. h., StSl, Recens. Orth. i, 18/ d, p. io-. 



Browu or grev, with black markings, pubescent beneath. 

 Antenna, slightly thickened, pale at the base. Pronotum 

 rucrose, with a high median carina, forming two teeth i'} fi'ont, 

 and with lateral carinas. Tegmina grey, sometimes with two 

 indistinct brown bands, the extremity brownish hyaline ; wings 

 yellow at the base, and brown or black beyond. Femora and 

 tibiffi marked as in T. cristeUa, bat the femora are thicker. 



Length 13-16 mm. ; tegmina, 12-5-16 mm. 



Saussiu-e's description of T. anmdata agrees neither with 

 Tliunbercr's nor with AValker's T. asjyem, but with T. vulnerata, 

 De Haan (Orth. pp. 161, 162, pi. xxi, fig. Vi) T anmdata ^^ 

 either a very variable species or (which is more probab e) there are 

 a number of closely allied species iu different parts of the Oriental 

 Kegion. 



173. Trilophidia tuvpis. Wall-. 



Epacromia turpis, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 



Tniup/ii'dia annulata, var. ceylonica, Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, 



xxviii (9), 1884, p. 158. 



Brown, granulated; scutellum of the vertex passing into the 



frontal ridge ; antenna^ ringed with black and tawuy. Pronotum 



rectangular behind ; abdomen blackish in the middle above, leg- 



