382 noctuid^. 



Genus PHYLLOPHILA. 



Type. 



Plnjlloph ihi, G uen . Noct . i i . p. 254 ( 1 852) obi it era/a. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hardly 

 reaching to middle of irons, the 3rd short ; frons with rounded prominence 

 sometimes slightly roughened at extremity and with corneous plate below it; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna 3 of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and slightly creuulate ; 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 

 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform prominently 



defined by white numerica, 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not defined by 



white. 



a. Fore wing grey with hardly any brown tinge. 



a 1 . Fore wing with the lines not defined by black obliterata. 



b 1 . Fore wing with the lines defined by black griseola, 



b. Fore wing suffused with rufous or red-brown. 



a 1 . Fore wing with the subterminal line prominent, 



yellowish rufcscens. 



b 1 . Fore wing with the subterminal line indistinct. 



ft 2 . Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved from 

 below costa to vein 6, then oblique. 

 ft 3 . Fore wing with the veins of costal area not streaked 



with brown flavitermina. 



b 3 . Fore wing with the veins of costal area streaked 



with brown torrcfacta. 



b-. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved from 



below costa to vein 4, then oblique obscura. 



c~. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards 



below costa, then oblique cogela. 



5581. Phyllophila numerica. 



Agrophila numerica, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 175 (1840); Guen. Noct. 



ii. p. 235, P l. 10. f. 9 ; Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 7. f. 8; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 2ol. 

 Erastria ornatuln, Christ. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 84, pl. 4. f. 8 (1887). 



Head and thorax deep golden brown mixed with white ; frons 

 with lateral blackish bars ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown, the basal crest dark brown. 

 Fore wing deep golden brown irrorated with white ; subbasal line 

 white, dentate, from costa to submedian fold, a white spot beyond 

 it in cell and short streak above vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 black-brown filled in with white, waved, somewhat oblique ; 

 orbicular and reniform with white annuli, their centres defined by 

 black-brown, the former round, almost confluent below with the 

 latter which is constricted at middle and angled inwards on 

 median nervure; postmedial line double, black-brown filled in with 

 white, strongly bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold 

 to the reniform, incurved below vein 4 to lower edge of reniform, 

 then waved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 



