480 NOCTUID MOTHS 



rather shoit in both sexes, with the termen almost outward!}' 

 obhque from apex to E^. Areole absent, SC^ froiii angle 

 of cell, SC- well stalked with SC^ SC\ Wings dark 

 vinaceous-drab, with the usual Si}}iplicia pattern, fore wing 

 rather darker than hind wing ; both wings with termeji 

 somewliat paler, violet-grey. Fore wing with the discal spot 

 black; ante- and postmedial lines weak, waved, the ante- 

 medial obliquelv curved, postmedial excurved round cell (bent 

 inward at discal fokt) ; siibterriiinal line j^roximally edged by 

 broad dark shading. Underside nearly uniform drab, both 

 wings with discal spot, postmedial and subterminal lines. 

 Mt. Poi, 4350 feet— 1 cf , 1 9 ; 5000 feet— 2 9. 



SuBsiMPLiciA Gen. Nov. 

 Near simplicia, from which it differs principally in the 

 position of E" of the hind wing, which is giyei;! off well 

 before angle of celj, (at a\)Qut 4/5), f^nd in the weaker curve 

 of segment 2 of pajipus, which is fully tvyicp djapieter of eye 

 (about If in S. rectalis Ev.); in subsimplicia this segment 

 is slightly swelled behind on proximal ^ and distinctly tufted 

 on distal § (in rectalis the thickness is more equal, the 

 scaling slighter). Other points of difference from Simplicia 

 (r^ectalis) ^re as follows :- -cells of both wings a little shorter; 

 areole present (very small, with SC~ well stalked) ; hind 

 wing with SC^~E^ minutely stalked, E^ not stalked with M', 

 termen, of, wing more evenly rounded; segment 3 of palpus 

 only about half the length of 2, with small triangular tuft 

 at middle behind ; abdomen with rough dorsal hair on 2 or 

 3 Jbasal segments; middle and hind leg (tibia and tarsus) 

 rather longer, about § and nearly -| length of costa. The cf 

 fore leg short, with a large sheath covered with dense black 

 hair, concealing all .but the last two s^gments^ of tarsus ; 

 about as in circumscripta. (Aginna circumscripta Wlkr.. 

 Spec. Lep. Ins., xxxiii, p. 1023, 1865, Penang). These 

 sheaths seem often an important generiq character .in the 

 Hypfninae. Su.hsiniplicia appears somewhat intermediate 

 to Adrapsa,. but the latter, genus is distinguishable by the 

 unusually, |Shprt cell of hind wing (J or less) and, in the cf, 

 by the absence of fore-tibial sheath and by the palpu^,, 

 ^vb^ch shows considerablje variation but seems pr^cticajly 

 never to be sickle-shaped (as. in the 9 and in both sexes 

 of Simplicia and Subsimplicia). 



