11 



NOCTfin/F. 



excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards 

 at vein 2 ; a terminal series of white striae ; cilia dark brown 

 mixed with white and with fine white line at middle. Hind 

 wing white, the terminal area rather narrowly irrorated with 

 brown except towards tornus ; a fine brown terminal line from 

 apex to submedian fold ; the underside with the costa and termen 

 slightly irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A.., Texas, 1 c? , 1 2 type, Kerrville, 1 $ , 1 $ . Exp. 

 26-30 millim. 



Genus CYTOCANIS, nov. 



Type, C. denticulosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of irons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 moderate ; frons with large corneous prominence with raised edges, its lower 

 edge produced to a beak-like process ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male 

 laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and 

 without crests; tibiie smoothly scaled, the joints of fore tarsi rather short and 

 the ungues rather large ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of ceil ; 

 f) obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4441. Cytocanis denticulosa. 



Miana denticulosa, Wlk. xxxii. 676 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 310. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with whitish ; abdomen 

 ochreous white suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright red-brown 

 irrorated with white ; a slight curved whitish subbasal line from 

 costa to median nervure ; antemedial line tine, white, oblique 



Fig. 29. — Cytocanis denticulosa, rf . t- 



from costa to below cell, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, slightly defined by white, the former oblique 

 elliptical ; postmedial line slight, white, bent outwards below costa, 

 then waved, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it 

 on costa ; a fine white subterminal line strongly dentate to termen ; 

 a white line just before termen ; cilia white mixed with red-brown. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with pale rufous ; a fine white sub- 

 terminal line strongly dentate to the white line just before termen ; 

 cilia white mixed with red-brown ; the underside white irrorated 

 with rufous. 



Hah. Bombay (Leith), 1 <3 , Kutch, 3 5 ; Madras, Coimbatore 

 (WaUwuse), 1 6 type. Exji. 28-30 millim. 



