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and lateral bars on frons blackish ; tegula) with dark medial line, 

 their tips and the thorax deep rufous ; abdomen fuscous brown, the 

 lateral tufts pale. Fore wing greyish suflused with brown and with 

 rufous on costal area; a doiible waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double moderately dentate autemedial line, 

 angled outAvards above inner margin ; claviform with its extremity 

 defined by a black striga ; orbicular narrow and extending to well 

 below cell, with fuscous centre and grey annulus defined by black : 

 renit'orm elliptical, fuscous defined by black ; a somewhat waved 

 diffused medial line passing between the stigmata ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, dentate and produced to a double series of points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous defined by rufous on 

 inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at 

 middle, the area beyond it pale, especially at apex ; a terminal 

 punctiform line ; cilia rufous with waved black line through them. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale ; the underside ochreous 

 grey irrorated with fuscous and suffused with fuscous towards 

 termen, which is pale, a small discoidal spot, slightly curved post- 

 medial line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio (Maru's), 2 S , Yokohama (Jonas, Fryer), 5 S , 

 4 2 type. Exp. o-i-SS millim. 



Genus BEHRENSIA. 



Type. 

 JDchrensia, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 70 (1875) conchiformis. 



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

 with long hair in front; frons smooth with large tul't of hair; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antenna of njale .simple, laminate, with large tufts of hair from basal 

 joint; head and thorax clothed chiefly with rough scales, the tegulffi produced 

 to a dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathoras with small sj^reading crests, pectus 

 and legs clothed with long scale.s and hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests, the one on 2nd joint very large and fan-shaped, lateral fringes of hair. 

 Fore wing short and bi'oad, the termen obliquely curved, the tornus with small 

 scale-tuft ; 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- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2453. Behrensia conchiformis. 



Behrensia conchiformis, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 71 (1875) ; id. List 

 Noctuidse, pi. f. 6 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 246. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey and black ; tegulae 

 red-brown, black at base and greyish at tips ; tarsi black ringed 

 witli white ; abdomen dark brown mixed with grey, the dorsal 

 crests reddish brown. Fore wing grey-white suffused with brown 

 and irrorated with black, and with patches of golden green scales 

 on basal area, beyond postmedial line, before terminal lunules, and 

 sometimes ou medial costal area ; the medial area black-brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by black striae from costa and cell ; ante- 



