208 NOCTDID^, 



ochi'eons-white fascia on inner margin from near base to tornus ; 

 siibba&'al line double filled in with wliite, angled inwards in cell, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemcdial lino double filled in with whitish, 

 angled outwards below costa and inwards on subcostal nervure and 

 on vein 1 ; claviform large, filled in with black ; vein 2 defined 

 below by a \\ hite fascia to just beyond postmedial line ; orbicular 

 and reniform with ochreous-white annul i defined by black, the 

 former small, oblique elliptical, the latter dilated l)elow ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with whitish, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then obli(}ue, some whitish points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous white shading into yellow 

 on outer side, defined on inner side by proniineiit dentate black 

 marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards in submedian fold ; 

 an apical ochreous patch ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind wing suffused uilh fuscous; 

 cilia whitish at tips ; the underside pale suffused with fuscous, a 

 discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line, 



Ihth. Punjab, Kulu, 1 S , Dharmsala {Nocking), 9 d , 5 $ , type 

 and types indsa and auripicta. Exp. 42-46 millim. 



Genus HADENA. ^ 



Type. 



Hadena, Scbrank, Faun. Boica, ii. (2) p. 158 (1802) reticulata. 



Neiiria, Guen. Noct. i. p. 166 (18,52), nee Guen. 1841, non 



clescr reticulata. 



Dan/ida, Wlk. ix. 201 (1856) graminivora. 



Eupsephopacies, Grote, Bull. Buff. See. Kat. Sci. i. p. 137 



(1873) procincta. 



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

 with hair in front, the 3rd short ; irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenniE 

 of male ciliated ; thorax quadrately clothed with hair and scales, prothorax 

 typically with divided crest; pectus clothed with long hair; tibije fringed with 

 long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment, clothed with woolly 

 hair at base and with lateral fringes of hair towards extremity. Fore wing 

 rather narrow, the apex produced and the termen obliquely curved, the cilia 

 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 .'■>, 4 irom angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocelhilars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



Sect. I. Thorax with divided ridge4ike crest. 



A. Fore wing with white fascia below median nervure and 

 vein 4. 

 a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines confluent 

 on vein 1. 



fl^. Hind wing pure white gra^iiinea. 



b^. Hind wing whitish, the terminal area brown procincta. 



h. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines not con- 

 fluent (jn vein 1. 

 a'. Fore wing with short white streak above extremity of 



claviform ; orbicular very oblique, narrow graminivora. 



i'. Fore wing without short white streak above extremity 



of'clavif(;rin ; orbicular oblique, quadrate oneridionalis. 



