270 NOCTUID^. 



*1523. Lasianobia decreta. (Hate LXXXV. fig. 21.) 



Mamestra decreta, Piing. Iris, xii. p. 292, pi. 9. f. 7 (1900); Staud. Oat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 159. 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with red-brown ; 

 tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing grey tinged and irrorated with 

 brown, the area in, below, and beyond cell from antemedial to 

 subterminal line suffused with rufous ; a black streak below base 

 of cell ; antemedial liue waved, strongly angled iuwards in cell ; 

 claviform minute, greyish defined by black ; the median nervure 

 and veins arising from it streaked with grey on medial area; 

 orbicular and reniform grey defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, with smaller spot below it on base of vein 2, the latter 

 oblique and with its lower extremity produced ; postmedial line 

 rather indistinct and somewhat dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 obliquely excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards 

 on vein 7 and slightly dentate on veins 4, 3 ; a fine terminal black 

 line. Hind wing grey uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia pale ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous, a dis- 

 coidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and some dark strise on 

 termen. 



2 less tinged with rufous, some fuscous suffusion beyond lower 

 extremity of reniform. 



JJah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, type t in Coll. Piingeler. Kiy. 36 

 millim. 



Genus MA.NOBIA. 



Type. 

 Manohia, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 317 (189.5) xena. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with hair in front ; fruns 

 emooth, rounded ; eyes large, ruunded ; antennae of male minutely serrate ; 

 head and thorax clothed entirely with hair and hair-like scales ; the pro- and 

 nietathorax with spreading crests ; fore tarsi with curved claws on outer side 

 of one or more joints ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment only. Fore 

 wing v/ith 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 just below middle of disco- 

 cell ulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing wfth the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with wedge-shaped dark patch below base of cell, 



the medial area suffused with rufuus xena. 



B. Fore wing without wedge-shaped dark patch below base of 



cell, the medial area not suffused with rufous grisea. 



1524. Manobia xena. 



Manohia xena, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 317, pi. 6. f. 8 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 161. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish grey ; 

 abdomen greyish brown, the dorsal crest and anal tuft rufous. 



