612 NocxtriD^. 



1061. Neiirois renalba. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 21.) 



Mamest7'a renalba, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. Ill (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 195. 



5 . Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with white ; 

 fore tibias and tarsi with ochreous bands ; pectus and mid and hind 

 legs mostly grey ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft rufous, the 

 ventral surface greyish. Fore wii]g black-brown with a cupreous 

 tinge ; a subbasal line from costa to submediau fold defined with 

 grey on outer side ; the antemedial line oblique, minutely waved 

 and defined by grey on inner side, the area between it and the sub- 

 basal line suffused with black ; orbicular small, defined with black 

 an(J sometimes with some white in its lower part, placed on a 

 diffused medial line ; reniform defined by black, constricted at middle 

 and almost filled in with white or with white points round it : a 

 waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to white points at the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line excurved below costa and at middle and incurved in discal and 

 submedian folds, with a series of dentate black marks before it, the 

 area beyond it somewhat paler ; a terminal black line interrupted 

 by white points at the veins ; cilia brown with darker line through 

 tbem. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards costa ; the cilia 

 ochreous with brown line through them. Underside of fore wing 

 with the reniform wliite ; hind wing white with discoidal spot, 

 curved postmedial line, and terminal fuscous band. 



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Genus EUROIS. 



Type. 



Eurois, Hiibn. Verz. p. 217 (1827) p-aiina. 



Aplecta, Giien. Aim. Soc. Ent. Ft. vii. p. 217 (1838) p-asiwa. 



Matuta, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 116 (1874) tenchrifera. 



Adclphagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 38 (1890) ... sfellaris. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed with 

 hair in front, the 3fd short, porrect, with some hair in front ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 frons smooth ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales and with spread ino' 

 crests on pro- and metathorax ; fore tibia fringed with hair, mid and hind tibise- 

 spined. Fore wiug rather broad, the apex rectangular ; 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 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. {Matuta). Antennae of male. bipectinate, the apical part serrate. 



A. Fore wing with the lines strongly marked with black at 



costa. 



a. Fore wing dark, strongly irrorated with black youngi. 



h. Fore wing paler and less irrorated with black elimaia. 



B. Fore wing with the lines not marked with black at costa... tcnehrifcra.. 



