MEGANEPHRI A . PA CH YPOMA, 



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line; cilia pale with a blackish line through them. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with reddish brown ; traces of a sinuous post- 

 medial line ; a slight brown mark on vein 2 towards termen and 

 some slight dentate brown marks on medial part of termen ; cilia 

 brown with a pale line at base ; the underside white, with medial 

 brown mark on costa and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Pnjer). 2 $ type. Ea!2^. 58 millim. 



Genus PACHYPOLIA. 



Pach/jMlia, Grote, 6th Reij. Peab. Acad. Sci. p. 27 (1874) 



Type. 



africornw. 



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

 with bair in front, the 3rd short ; irons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antenuffi 

 of male typically bipectinated with rather long branches, the apex simple ; 

 head ajid thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the thorax with divided dorsal 

 ridge-like crest ; pectus and legs clothed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest on basal segments. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen obliquely 

 curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing witii 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below iniddle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly staliied ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apex 

 simple. 



2479. Pachypolia atricornis. 



PachypoUa atricornis, Grote, 6th Hep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 27 (1874) ; id. 

 List Noctuidre, pi. f 8 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 164. 



S . Head and thorax clothed with grey, brown, and black scales ; 

 frons with black bar; tegulce with black medial line and darlc 

 brown tips ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi with 

 whitish rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with black and tinged 



Fig. 100. — Pacliijiiolia atricornis, (^ . 



with reddish brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with black, the medial area rather dark except basal part 

 of inner area ; a small tuft of white and black scales at base ; a slight 

 black streak below base of cell defined by white above ; subbasal 

 line represented by double curved black stria3 from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with grey, waved, somewhat oblique 

 and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform moderate, 



