470 NOCTUID MOTHS 



porrect (as in Hypena). In the majority of Hypenid genera 

 the cf has some speciaUzed secondary character, sheath on 

 fore leg, aborted fore tibia (with or without sheath), fold on 

 costa of fore wing beneath, large tuft of hair on fore wing 

 above or beneath or upon palpus or antenna, etc. The 

 neuration appears to be much more variable than in most of 

 the other subfamilies, the cT sometimes differing from the 9. 

 of the same species, or occasionally even individuals of one 

 sex showing slight variation ; in the genus Hydrillodes 

 (possibly in other genera) some species have vein C of the 

 hind wing anastomosing about normally whilst in othei 

 species there is no true anastomosis at all, C being joined 

 to SC by a minute bar; this character, which by Sir G. 

 Hampson's key to the famihes should not occur in the 

 Noctuidae at all, seems to be not very uncommon in the 

 Hypeninae. The build is generally slender and, apart from 

 the palpus and secondary sexual tufts, the hairy vestiture is 

 usually somewhat weak, even on pectus and legs. Although 

 insufficient work has at present been done to allow of the 

 publication of reliable statistics, tlie examination of the length 

 of legs in this and other subfamilies, so far as at present 

 carried out, seems to confirm Sir G. Hampson's statement 

 in "Moths of India." Vol. Ill (subfamily diagnosis), that 

 the legs average long. 



There is almost certainly a difference in the shape of the 

 body and also in the tympanum, which in most Hypeninae 

 appears almost to divide the thorax and abdomen, cutting 

 obHquely between the two. In more typical Noctuidae I have 

 never observed this divided appearance — though the difference 

 may be partly due to a difference in hairy vestiture. 



The genera included in the above svnopsis are for the most 

 part those place under "Polopo^oninae" (Deltoidae) in Coll. 

 British Museum ; though some genera which were placed in 

 the Hypeninae in "Moths of India," Vol. Ill but are now 

 in the Ophiderinae may not improbably have to return to 

 the former position when a more thorough study of them 

 is undertaken. 



ElYRA (?) EUGENES sp. n. 



Cf 83 mm. ; 9 31 mm. 



cf antenna bipectinate. the pectinations rather long, ending 

 in curved bristles ; 9 with short bristles and very short cilia. 



