800 NOCTUID.E. 



vertex of head with black spots; antennae brown; tegulae with 

 black line at base, the tegulae at tips, patagia and metathorax 

 with some black mixed ; fore tibia? and the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white; abdomen white tinged with brown, the crests tipped 

 with black. Fore wing brown suffused with purple-grey and with 

 white markings defined by black ; a white fascia below base of cell 

 connected with costa by two converging subbasal bands enclosing 

 a triangular space ; a white antemedi'al band obliquely curved from 

 costa to vein 1, then bent outwards to inner margiu, some white 

 suffusion tinged with blue-green beyond it ; a white fascia on 

 terminal part of median nervure continued to beyond the post- 

 medial band where it sometimes encloses a dark spot ; an angled 

 white mark in end of cell connected with the oblique discoidal 

 lunule ; an oblique white band from below middle of cell to inner 

 margin, its upper extremity connected by a streak with the post- 

 medial band which is dilated below costa, oblique to beyond lower 

 angle of cell and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a subterminal 

 .series of slight black marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a white spot on 

 termen in submedian interspace. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; 

 cilia white with a brownish line through them ; the underside 

 with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal point and maculate postmedial line excurved to 

 vein 3, then incurved. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 $ type ; W. China, Shen-se, 

 Sinling (Menu), 1 2 • Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Genus PTYOPTEROTA. 



Type. 

 Pft/op/erofa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 75 (1894,) obscura. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna? of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without distinct crests; tibia; moderately fringed with hair, the 

 spurs long : abdomen with dorsal crest at base only, the claspers of male 

 elongate. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle : 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole ; 11 from cell ; 

 male with a fringe of long scales on underside on subcostal nervure from base 

 to end of cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent ; 6, 

 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



*5848 a. Ptyopterota obscura. 



Ptyopterota obscura, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 75 (1894). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous, the genital 

 tuft whitish. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; a dark point at 

 base ; antemedial line blackish, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure and with blackish spot before it above inner margin ; a 



