280 NOCTIUDJ5. 



reddish brown ; a very indistinct diffused dark obscurely waved 

 antemedial line with slight dark point beyond it in cell ; the outer 

 half of medial area suffused with fuscous, bounded by the post- 

 medial line, which is very indistinct, with a series of minute 

 dark streaks on the veins, oblique from costa to vein 7, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a dark subterminal line ; a terminal 

 series of black spots. Hind wing pale reddish brown slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a minute discoidal point ; a curved medial 

 series of slight points ; faint traces of a subterminal line ; a terminal 

 series of small black spots ; the underside whitish slightly irrorated 

 with brown. 



J/ab. Japan, Nikko, type f d in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 26 

 millim. 



Genus BOSTRODES, nov. 



Type, B. proleuca. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about vertex of bead and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth : 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated, somewhat thickened with scales 

 at base; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the term en evenly 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 from angle of cell ; 

 5 almost fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with white costal fascia proleuca. 



B. Fore wing without white costal fascia rubrifusa. 



5422. Bostrodes proleuca, n. sp. 



Head and thorax deep chocolate-red, the base of patagia with 

 flesh-white patches, abdomen rather paler red. Fore wing deep 

 chocolate-red with slight dark irroration ; a flesh-white fascia on 



Fig. 82,— Bostrodes proleuca, S- ]■ 



costa narrowing to a point beyond middle ; antemedial line slight, 

 whitish, oblique from the costal fascia to vein 1; postmedial line 

 whitish faintly defined on inner side by brown, slightly excurved; 

 subterminal line very indistinct, whitish, slightly defined on outer 

 side by dark scales, .minutely waved below vein 4; cilia with a 

 slight dark line near tips. Hind wing deep chocolate-red with 

 Blight dark irroration; an oblique whitish medial line faintly 

 defined on inner side by brown ; subterminal line very indistinct, 



