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NOCTUIDJE. 



line diffused ; the orbicular and reniform only defined by brown 

 lines on their inner and outer sides, a strong yellow-brown medial 

 shade passing between them ; the postmedial line waved, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; some pale points 

 on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line defined by a broad 

 yellow-brown band on its inner side, dentate outwards at veins 6,4, 



Fig. 104. — Paraxcstiafiavicaudata, (S- \- 



3, 2 ; a crenulate terminal line ; cilia ochrcous with a darker line 

 through them. Hind wing yellow-brown suffused with fuscous ; 

 the cilia yellow-brown, with ochreous line at base ; the underside 

 with discoidal lunule and slightly sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Kashmir, Jalauri Pass {McArthur), 2 c? , 1 5 ; Punjab, 

 Thundiani {Yerhury), 9 $ type. Exp. 5G-G0 millim. 



Genus MYTHIMNA. 



Type. 



J\Iythimna, Oche. Scbmett. Eur. iv. p. 78 (ISlti), non descr. ; 



Treit. Sebniett. Eur. v. (2) p. 177 (1825) oxalina. 



Orihosia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 79 (1816), non descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. r. (2) p. 201 (1825) ccEcinmoula. 



Ccrastis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 84 (1816), nun descr. ; 



Treit. Scbmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 395 (1825) rubricosa. 



Mcsogona, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 144 (1840) cu-etosellcs. 



Ani'iJioconia, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 97 (1857) ccecimacula. 



PseudoglcBa, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 18 (1876) hlanda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned and fringed with long 

 hair in front ; frous smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male typically 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clotl ed with rough hair only ; fore tibice fringed 

 with hair ; mid and hind tibiai spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; (i from ujjper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen crenulate and 

 slightly excised in discal fold : veins -3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; (>, 7 shortly stalked. 



Sect. I. Anteunre of male bipectinate to apex, with rather long branches. 



A. Fore wing with the cell filled in with black before and 



between the stigmata. 

 a. Forewingwith the orbicular oblique, elliptical, very large. cori/phcBa. 

 h. Fore wing with the orbicular U-shaped paUescens. 



B. Fore wing with the cell tinged with black before and 



between the stigmata cmlehs. 



C. Fore wing with the cell not black Icticographa. 



