10 



NOCTUID.E. 



excurved ; claviform small, obscurely defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, the former round with ochreous annulus, the 

 latter narrow with white annulus or sometimes obscured by fascous 

 suffusion ; traces of an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, 

 with black and white points at the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, oblique and somewhat sinuous 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 pale, with traces of dentate dark marks on its inner side, irregu- 

 larly dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points and a series of pale rufous points at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia pale, with a 

 fuscous line through them ; the underside pale, tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line, 



Ilah. Chili (Edmonds), 3 5 type. Kvp. 26 millim. 



1131, Trichestra anthophila. 



Cclisna anthophila, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 122. 



2 • Brownish grey ; palpi blackish at sides ; some black scales 

 near tips of teguloe and upper edge of patagia ; tarsi banded with 

 black. Fore wing irrorated and partly suffused with fuscous ; a 

 waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct 



Fig. 4. — Trichcstra anthopJiUa, $. \. 



double waved antemedial line; claviform with its extremity slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, very incompletely 

 defined by black and open above and below ; postmedial line rather 

 ill-defined, black, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4, some pale points on costa beyond 

 it ; subterminal line represented by a series of small white and black 

 dentate marks, slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 ochreous white with a dark line through them ; the underside 

 greyish irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and diffused 

 curved postmedial line. 



llab. Chili (Edmonds), 1 $ type. iiay>. 24 millim. 



