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zigzag line, internally solid ; siibmarginal line slightly sinuons, interrupted between 

 3 and 4, preceded and followed by dark shades, the hindraargin becoming irregularly 

 green ; fringe dark. 



Hindwing: blackish, with six irregular fulvous yellow blotches, three on 

 veins 6 and 7, the first at their origin, the third marginal, the second half-way 

 between ; the other three similarly placed on veins 2, 3, and 4, the marginal one 

 long and narrow. 



Underside blackish ; forewing with a yellowish V-shaped mark at middle of 

 costa, some yellow marks along hindmargin, and a Q-shaped yellow mark at apex, 

 with black centre ; hindwing as above. 



Palpi beneath yellow, ajjex of second segment and the third dark ; face 

 yellow ; vertex fuscous ; collar greenish ; shoulders purplish in middle, edged with 

 greenish ; patagia greenish in middle, edged with purplish : thorax green ; abdomen 

 cinereous ; legs fuscous, mottled with yellowish. 



Expanse of wings : 39 mm. 



1 ?. 



A species without apparent affinities, strongly suggestive of the Noctuidae. 



Phrudophleps gen. nov^ 



Forewing : costa strongly curved at base, slightly at apex ; hindmargin deeply 

 crenulate, somewhat prominent at vein 4, more oblique below ; inner margin fringed 

 with broad-tipped hairs in basal half. 



Hinilwing : with rounded apex and hindmargin, the latter insinuate before 

 anal angle, which is shortly squared. 



Forehead rough-haired, with projecting tuft ; palpi with second segment rough- 

 haired, obliquely upturned before face, terminal segment, long, smooth-scaled, 

 jjorrect ; antennae (?) thick, lamellate; metathorax tufted ; tongue and frenulum 

 present. 



Neuration : forewing, cell half the length of wing ; discocellnlar vertically 

 concave ; first median nervule just be3ond one-half, second close before third ; lower 

 radial absent, scarcely even represented by a fold, upper radial from upper end of 

 cell; 7,8,9 stalked from before end; lU and 11 long-stalked: hindwing, costal 

 and subcostal shortly approximated near base, 6, 7 long-stalked ; discocellnlar and 

 medians as in forewing ; no radial. 



Type : Phrudophleps viridis spec. nov. 



138. Phrudophleps viridis spec. nov. 

 Forewing : white, covered with bright green confluent striae which mostly 

 obliterate the ground-colour ; costa with short dark green specks ; central fascia 

 with the edges dentate-lunnlate, darker, being mixed with blackish green, the 

 lunules externally filled in with white ; inner edge at one-fourth, marked by a white 

 costal spot, one between median and submedian veins, and a smaller one below ; 

 outer edge at two-thirds, sinuate inwards below middle ; a large white spot on 

 costa, Vjeyond cell, and in submedian interval, with smaller dots between ; marginal 

 area darkened at middle by a deep green shade, containing two white siibmarginal 

 lunules below costa, above and below vein 7, and two marginal lunules above and 

 below vein 3 ; dark green marginal lunules between veins ; fringe jjale green, 

 chequered with dark green beyond veins ; tips of the hair-scales of fringe along- 

 inner margin dark green ; cell-spot large and white. 



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