210 NOCTUXDJS, 



medial line arising from costa toward? apex, double, dentate, brick- 

 red on the yellow areas, fuscous on the brown, slightly axourved 

 be'ow costa, oblique to vein 3, bent inwards to near origin of vein - 

 and again slightly exeurved ; a brown snbierminal line arising from 

 just beyond the post medial line, obliquely curved to vein 3, then 

 incurved and diffused : the yellow patch with brown streaks on the 

 veins at apex • cilia dark at tips towards tornus. Hind wing 

 greyish suffused with pale red-brown ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with red brown. 



h . Bombay (LeUh), 1 5 type. E&jp. 44 millim. 



Genus CIRRODES. nov. 



Type, C 



Proboscis fully developed: palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint teaching 

 to middle of frons, the 3rd moderate : frons with large corneous promi- 

 nence with raised edges and corneous process with raised edges in oei 

 corneous plate below it: eyes large, round: antenna? of male laminate and 

 almost simple: thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair: abdomen without crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the barmen evenly curved and hardly crenulate. the 

 inner margin with slight scale-tooth at tornus : veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell : ti from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the 

 areole : 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o. 4 from ancle of cell : 5 obso- 

 lescent from below middle of diseoeellulars: C\ 7 from upper angle: 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



4576. Cirrodes ph.o?uicea, n. sp. 



Head and thorax creamy white mixed with some rufous : palpi, 

 sides of frons. and antennae rufous ; legs suffused with rufous : 

 abdomen pale yellowish dorsally tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 yellowish white suffused with bright crimson except on terminal 

 area, deeper on the veins and leaving some yellowish white in cell: 

 an oblique deep crimson shade from below middle of cell to inner 

 margin near base ; a faint oblique crimson bar from mid lie of costa 



Fig. To. — Cirrodes pka ticca, rj. 1. 



to upper angle of cell : postmedial line faint, oblique from costa to 

 vein ti and very strongly angled inwards at submedian fold, then 

 outwards above vein 1 : a faint oblique subterminal shade from 

 below vein 4 to inner margin. Hind wing pale fulvous yellow, the 

 female with a faint subterminal shade. 



Hah. N.E. Rhodesia, E. Luangwa Distr. > A . 1 $ . 1 J type. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



