LOPHOTYNA. 19 



Genus LOPHOTYNA, nov. 



Type, L. albirena,. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front, the 

 3rd joint short, porrect ; irons smooth, with large tuft of hair; vertex of bead 

 crested ; eyes large , round ; antennae of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the tegulss produced to a slight dorsal 

 ridge, the prothorax witb higb triangular crest, the metathorax with spreading 

 crest; tibiie moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal cresls on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the termen strongly 

 crenulate and obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near auijle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the termen waved, veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 fmm below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



4312. Lophotyna albirena. 



Mamestra albirena, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 53 ; Hir.psn. Moths Ind ii 

 p. 212. 



J . Head and thorax dull reddish brown mixed witb some white ; 

 frons witb lateral black bars ; basal joint of antennas white ; tarsi 

 fuscous witb pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown slightly irrorated 

 with grey and fuscous. Fore wing dull reddish brown tinged with 

 grey and fuscous, the terminal area rather darker, the veins with 

 slight dark streaks ; subbasal line whitish, waved, from costa to 

 suhmedian fold ; antemedial line whitish, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, waved ; elaviform a minute dark mark ; orbicular 

 very small, round, witb slight pale annulus defined by brown ; 



reniform represented by a white bar with point above it and bifid 

 spot below it on its outer edge; traces of a dark oblique medial 

 line bent inwards to costa ; postmedial line black slightly defined 

 by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate and produced to streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, then waved and somewhat excurved at middle ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line; cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, the cilia with whitish line at base, fuscous 

 medial line and pale reddish tips ; the underside whitish tinged with 



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