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absent in the cT. The wings are paler beneath, especially 

 the hind wing, which in the cT shows traces of yellow 

 androconia as far as the pinkish postmedial line ; the fore 

 wing in both sexes is suffused with pale rufous in cell and 

 fold. In structure both specimens seem to agree perfectly 

 with Hampson's diagnosis of the genus Toana in Cat. Lep. 

 Phal., X, p. 204. 



ToANOPSis gen. n. 



Proboscis, eye and frons normal. Palpus rather short, 

 with segment 2 slender, curved, hardly diameter of eye ; 

 segment 3 glabrous, acute, about one-fourth length of 2 or 

 rather more. Legs normal; fore tibia and tarsus about 

 one-third length of fore wing ; mid-tibia and tarsus about 

 three-fifths of fore wing ; hind tibia and tarsus about two-thirds 

 of fore wing. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales, apparently 

 with rather flattened crests on pro- and metathorax. Abdomen 

 with rather flattened scales (crests?) on one or two basal 

 segments. Eefinaculum semiquadrate. Anal tuft small. 

 cT antenna typically with even ciliation somewhat more than 

 diameter of shaft. 



Fore wing with termen strongly curved, hardly crenulate ; 

 apex acute; costa flattened throughout. Cell about one-half 

 length of fore wing, with discocellular 2 very weak; SC^ from 

 about (or just beyond) three-fifths of cell; SC^ from a 

 little before angle of cell; SC\ SC^ SC" stalked, SCS SC* 

 to fully three-fifths, SC^ to scarcely one-fifth ; R^ from 

 distinctly behind angle; R" from close to angle; M^ from 

 about three-fifths of cell ; M' from about three-fifths beyond 



Hind wing with termen well-rounded, hardly crenulate; 

 costa slightly arched towards base ; cell about three-eighths 

 length of wing, with discocellular 2 very weak ; vein C 

 anastomosing to scarcely one-third ; R" about as strong as the 

 other veins, from nearly two-thirds of discocellulars, slightly 

 bent upward at its origin; SC^, R^ W and M* normal; 

 M^ from about three-fifths of cell. 



Note. — Vein C of hind wing is unusually nearly parallel 

 with SC to end of cell, then rather strongly bent forward in 

 a manner very uncommon in the Noctuidae. The strength 

 of R^ of the hind wing might almost place this genus in the 



