EREBIDjE. .141 



one-sixth from the base : hindwing broadly conical, costa arched towards the base, 

 apex and exterior margin very convex ; cell short, extending one-third the length ; 

 two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, outwardly oblique 

 and slightly concave ; radial from close to lower end ; middle median from close to 

 end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian and internal straight. Body rather 

 slender, abdomen tapered to the tip ; palpi erect, compressed, first and second joints 

 laxly squamose, second joint reaching to the vertex, third joint slender, two-thirds 

 length of the second ; antennge long, slender, setaceous ; legs long, fore femora and 

 tibiee densely clothed beneath with fine long hairs, middle and hind tibige fringed 

 beneath, tarsi very long, spurs long and slender. 



OXYODES SCROBICULATA (Plate 164, Fig. 1). 



NocUia scrobiculata, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 212 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 137. 



Phalana Noctua scrobiculata, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2531. 



Phalcena Noctua Clytia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 399, fig. g (1782). 



Oxyodes Clytia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 128 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv, p. 1239. 



Brownish yellowish-ochreous : fore wing with a more or less distinct antemedial, 

 medial, and a discal blackish-brown scaled sinuous line, followed by an outer discal 

 less defined upper line, and a similar submarginal line, the upper interspace from the 

 inner discal line to the outer margin being more or less clouded with brown ; a small 

 rounded more or less distinct blackish-scaled orbicular spot and a large reniform 

 mark; the costal border and basal area shghtly sprinkled with blackish-brown 

 scales : hindwing with a broad longitudinal blackish-brown subcostal band, and four 

 transverse outer discal indistinct blackish-scaled sinuous lines, and a less defined 

 discocellular streak. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs brownish-ochreous ; abdomen 

 paler. 



Expanse 2 to 2j inches. 



ramily OMMATOPHORIDiE. 



Imago large or moderate. Wings broad, thick, alike in colour, and with similar 

 markings": forewing with the reniform spot forming a large ocellus. Body robust ; 

 palpi long, erect, apex slender, Unear ; antennae moderately long, very generally 



filiform. (Guenee.) 



Larva elongated, cylindrical, with sixteen legs, the first middle pair being 

 sometimes imperfect; a single or double conical dorsal prominence on twelfth 

 seo-ment ; an oval ocellated spot on each side of fifth segment. 



Pupa among growing leaves. 



