180 NOCTUIDiE. 



Fore wing bright pink tinged with greyish, the costal area rather 

 deeper except towards base, the base of inner margin whitish ; a 

 pink anteniedial line slightly bent inwards to costa, obsolescent and 

 slightly sinuous on inner area; orbicular a pink point, the reniform 

 an ill-defined pink lunule ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; cilia with a fine pink line through them. 

 Hind wing pinkish white suffused with brown especially on terminal 

 area ; traces of a curved postmedial line ; cilia ochreous white ; the 

 underside brownish white, the costal area tinged with pink, an 

 indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing pale pink, the terminal area rather darker 

 and without brown tinge. 



. Hal>. S. Russia, Sarepta (Christopli), Zeller, Frev, Leech, and 

 D'Emmick Colls. Exp. 8(5-44 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 162 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 74. 



Pale ochreous striated and speckled with dark brown, a broad 

 rufous dorsal stripe black on front of each somite and interrupted 

 on posterior part ; warts rufous ; stigmata white ringed with black; 

 head rufous. Food-plant : Statice gmelini. 



Genus CALOPHASIDIA, nov. 



Type, C. lucala. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to well beyond fronsand 

 thickly scaled, the 3rd joint short ; frous with corneous prominence with 

 raised edges and central vertical ridge; eyes large, round; antenna; of male 

 bipectinate with moderate branches to near apex; thorax thickly clothed with 

 hair and hnir-like scales and without crests; fore tibirc with curved claw at 

 extremity on inner side, the mid and hind tibia? moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not 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 3, 4 troni angle of cell ; 5 obsoles- 

 cent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennas of female with short branches ; frontal prominence with the 

 central process short. 



3783. Calophasidia lucala. 



Mega/odes lucala, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7; ix. p. 168 (1902). 



S . Palpi and frons black-brown slightly mixed with grey, 

 vertex of head grey, antennae red-brown ; thorax black-brown, the 

 outer part of teguloe and the patagia except upper edges white ; 

 pectus white tinged with brown ; the greater part of legs black- 

 brown, the tarsi ringed with white; abdomen white dorsallv 

 tinged with rufous and with slight dark bands at base. Fore wing 

 white, the costa black-brown, narrowing to base and expanding 

 somewhat towards apex, the inner area suffused with brown with 

 a diffused dark antemedial patch, vein 1, the median nervure and 



