22G NOCTUID^. 



ami witliout crests ; libiie fringed with long liiiir ; abdomen smootlily sealed 

 and without crestji. Fore wing with tlie apex rounded, the terrnei; evenly 

 I'lirred and not erennlale ; veins ."i and ;"> from ne:ir angle of cell ; (> from upper 

 angle; It from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of cell ; f) obsoleseeut from below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastf.mosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



4(J0U. Mudaria cornifrons. 



Mudaria cornifrons, Moore, Indian Museum Notes, iii. p. (I'.t (180:5) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 245. 



Head and thorax wliite tinged with pale brown and more or less 

 irroruted with Idack ; tarsi banded with bhtck ; abdomen ochroons 

 white dorsally sufl'used with brown. Fore wing oclireous white 

 thickly irrorated with pale brown and with a few black scales ; 

 siibbasal line represented by a slight bhick striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line black, double towards costa, oblique from costa to 

 Bubmedian fold, then strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and 

 outwards to inner margin : orbicular and renilorm forming a 

 confluent patch of the ground-colour defined on inner and outer 



Fig. 87. — Mudaria cornifrons, cj". !■ 



sides and below by black, extending to below cell ; postmedial line 

 black, double on costal half, minutely dentate, angled outwards 

 at vein 5 and obli(]uc below vein 3 ; subterminal line indistinct.^ 

 dentate, and with slight dentate dark marks before it at middle, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and obli(]ue below vein ?> -. a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia whitish at base, brownish at tips. 

 Hind wing pure semihyaline w^hite, the termen with tine brownish 

 line and some black points towards apex. 



.\b. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform patch strongly 

 defined by diffused black. 



llah. Eexgal, Calcutta (Cotes), 3 c? , 1 5 type. Kq). 40-44 

 niillim. 



Liifva. Feeds in the pods of the Silk-Cotton (Bomha.v malaharicum) 

 and pupates in the soil in cocoons made of earth and silk. 



Genus OCHROCALAMA, nov. 



Type, 0. xanthia. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely nptm-ned, reachingaboni to middle 

 of frons and moderately tringed with hair in front ; frons with long eorueons 

 process bifid at extremity and corneous plate below it excised in front; eyes 



