1 1 noctuid.t;. 



excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards 

 at vein 2; a terminal series of wliite striie ; cilia dark brown 

 mixed with white and with fine wiiite line at middle. Hind 

 ■win-;; wliito, the terminal area rather narrowly irrorated with 

 brown except towards tornus ; a fine brown terminal lino from 

 apex to subinedian fold ; the underside with the costa and termen 

 sliglitl)- irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A.., Texas, 1 c?, 1 $ type, Kerrville, 1 d , 1 $ . E.cp. 

 26-30 millim. 



Genus CYTOCANIS, nov. 



Type, C. deniiculosa. 



I'roboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturneci, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately frinsed with scales in front, the .Srtl 

 moderate ; frons with laree corneous prominence with raised edges, its lower 

 edge produced to a beak like process; eyes large, round; antennje of male 

 laminate and almost simple; thorax clotiied almost entirely with scales and 

 without crests; tibijB smiKJtidy scaled, the joints of fore tarsi rather short and 

 the ungues rather large ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and n from 

 near angle of cell ; (> from upper angle ; from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 'i, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4441. Cytocanis deiiticulosa. 

 Miana denticulosa, Wlk. xsxii. G76 (1865) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 310, 



Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with whitish ; abdomen 

 ochreous white suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright red-brown 

 irrorated with white ; a slight curved whitish subbasal line from 

 costa to median nervure ; antemedial line line, white, oblique 



Fig. 29. — Cytocanis denticulosa, (S . \. 



from costa to below cell, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, slightly defined by white, the former obli(iue 

 elliptical ; postmedial line slight, white, bent outwards below costa, 

 then waved, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it 

 on costa; a fine white subterminal line strongly dentate to termen ; 

 a white lino just before termen ; cilia white mixed with red-brown. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with pale rufous ; a fine white sub- 

 terminal line strongly dentnte to the white line just before termen ; 

 cilawhite mixed with red-brown; the underside white irrorated 

 with rufous. 



Hah. Bombay (Leith), 1 S , Kutch, 3 $ ; Madkas, Coimbatore 

 ( WalhoKse), 1 6 type. Rrj^ 28-30 millim. 



