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NOCTTJID^E. 



Genus ANGITIA. 



Tjpe. 



Angitia, Wlk. xv. 1719 (1858) directa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically short ; frons smooth; 

 eyes large, round; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with slight paired 

 crests, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibiae fringed with long hair 

 above ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the 

 apex rectangular, the termen somewhat excised below apex and oblique 

 towards tornus and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 (i from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a small areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly 

 stalked; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars; 

 0. 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male on upper side with strong folds in discal and 

 submedian folds from base to termen, the termen excurved at 

 middle; veins 3 4 stalked and 5 from lower angle of cell; the 

 hind tibiae with tuft of long hair from base above. 



5524. Angitia tiresias. 



Droheta tiresias, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 310, pi. 29. f. 1 

 (1889). 



d . Head and thorax ochreous white ; antennae brown ; tegulae 

 with black-brown line near base and band near tips ; patagia 

 edged above with brownish ; tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen 

 brownish white with brownish segmental lines. Fore wing dark 

 red-brown mixed with greyish ochreous ; subbasal line represented 

 by blackish spots below costa and cell; antemedial line black, 

 rather maculate, somewhat sinuous and slightly oblique ; claviform, 



Fig. 103. — Angitia tiresias, J. \. 



orbicular, and reniform small with blackish centres and faint 

 whitish annuli, the two former rather oblique elliptical ; medial 

 line represented by a blackish spot on costa and a faint incurved 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial Hue 

 double towards costa, oblique to vein 4 where it is acutely angled, 

 then incurved and waved, an oblique dark bar beyond it from costa 

 followed by some whitish points ; subterminal line almost obsolete 

 towards costa, then whitish, angled inwards at discal fold, incurved 

 and waved below vein 3, an oblique blackish mark bevond it at 



