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NOCTCIDJE. 



defined with pale ochreous on inner side and slightly excurved in cell ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, brown, with pale ochreous anuuli. the 

 former somewhat elliptical : the postmedial line brown, denned on 

 inner side by pale ochreous, excurved from costa to vein 5, tlien very 

 oblique and almost meeting the antemedial line at inner margin ; a 

 minutely waved fuscous subterminal line incurved in discal and 

 submedian folds ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing yellowish 

 white tinged with brown ; an oblique slightly sinuous postmedial line 

 and sinuous subterminal line diflused on inner side ; the underside 

 with discoidal points, the costal area tinged with pink and irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., jN'ew York, Sharon Springs {Mesl-e), 1 cJ, type 

 intexta ; Germany ; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Bremgarteu, 

 Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Russia, Livonia, Galitza, St. Petersburg, Ural 

 Mts. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Genus NEUROIS, nov. 



Type, N. nigroviridis. 



Proboscis fully develoijed ; pal^Di upturned, not reaching vertex of head and 

 clothed with rough hair ; frons obliquely rounded with slight rout^hened 

 prominence at extremity ; eyes large, rounded ; antennaj of male ciliated"; head 

 and thorax clothed with scales mixed with a few hairs, the metathorax with 

 distinct crest; fore tibiie fringed with hair; mid and hind tibia^ with a few 

 spines; abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral tufts towards 

 extremity. Fore wing with 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 cell; 5 obsolescent from below angle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing silvery white thickly irrorated with bronze-green, 



the terminal area brown niqrovlridis 



B. Fore wing sap-green, suffused with black and marked with 



pale brown atrovlrcns. 



C. Fore wmg black-brown rcnalha. 



1059. Neurois nigroviridis. 



X'/>7i;'era«2^row>i(Z/s,"Wlk. xxxii.615 (18G5); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 195. 



Head and thorax white mixed with black-brown ; palpi blackish • 

 pectus black-brown and grey ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 fuscous, the ventral surface irrorated with white. Fore wino- 

 silvery white, thickly irrorated with bronze-green, the terminal area 

 reddish brown : a slight subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 an oblique waved antemedial line defined by whitish on inner side • 

 orbicular and reniform bronze-green with white annuli defined by 

 black, both constricted at middle, the oblique waved medial line 

 passing between them ; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, then almost erect ; the subterminal line excurved below 

 costa and at middle and with some dentate black marks before it 

 elongate below costa and in discal fold ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules with some blue- white before them towards costa ; cilia 

 brown, their tips white intersected with brown. Hind wing fuscous 



