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NOCTUID-E. 



Genus FLAGIOMIMICUS. 



Trpe. 



Ploffiomimicus, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 182(1873). pUychroma. 



Proboscis fully flevelnpod ; p;.]|)i porrect, extending to just bevoiul frons, the 

 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair helow, the 3rd short; frons wiih Uir{;e 

 round oorueojis prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it; 

 eyes large, round; antenna; of male laminate and almost simple; thoriix 

 clotlicd with rougii scales, the protiiorax without crest, tlie metathorax with 

 spreadiniT crest, the ]atasria somewhat curled upwards at extremities; tibiic 

 nuderately iringed wiili hair, the fore tibia- very short and broad with Lirge 

 curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer ; abdomen without crests. 

 Fore wing with tiie apex slightly produced, the termen obliquely curved and 

 not crenuhite ; veins ."i and .'> from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from ]{) anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from ju?t below middle of 

 discocellulars; G, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with triangular black -brown patch on costa 



before apex. 

 a. P'ore wing with the orbicular and reniform filled in 



with black-brown pitychroma. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not filled 

 in witii black-hrown. 

 a'. Fore wing with blnck-Vown patch in cell between the 



orbicular and reniform which are obsolete trlphigiata. 



6'. Fore wing without black-brown patch in cell between 



orbicnhir and reniforni which are defined by white ... laverna. 



B. Fore wing without triangular biack-bro«n patch on co.-ta 



before apex. 

 a. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards at 



vein (') to near subiernnnal line dolli. 



h. Fore wing with the postmedial line ex(Hirved from below 



costa to vein 4 cxjMllida. 



4631. Plagicmimicns pitychroma. 



Flacpom-iwicus piiyclirohius, Grote, Bid). Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 183 



(1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. ^. y\m. ]i. lG3. 

 ScJiinia media, Morr. Broc. Bost. Soc. K. H. xviii. p. 123 (1875). 



(S . Head and thorax red-browli mixed with greyish; ahdomen 



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Fig. 102. — IHagiomimicvs pitychroma, S- \- 



greyish suffused with brown. Fore wing greyish suffused with 

 red-brown ; antemedial line white with fine brown line on outer 

 edge, slightly oxcurved ; orbicuiar dark brown defined by white, 

 very oblique, bar-shaped, its outer edge somewhat excised ; reniform 

 a dark brown bar defined by while, its upper extremity somewhat 



