108 NOCTUIDE. 
subbasal line black, waved, interrupted, defined on inner side by 
white towards costa; antemedial line double, black filled in with 
white towards costa, the black on inner side expanding on costa to 
subbasal line; a black point in middle of cell; reniform with black 
bar in middle and whitish annulus defined by black; medial line 
forming a diffused black patch on costa, dentate below the cell; 
postmedial line double, black filled in with white towards costa, 
bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate, oblique below 
vein +, some black suffusion beyond it; postmedial area with some 
white points on costa and a strongly dentate black line; sub- 
terminal line whitish, defined on inner side by wedge-shaped black 
marks and on outer slightly by black, waved ; a series of small black 
Junules on apical half of termen, the inner half of. terminal area 
almost wholly black ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing 
grey, the inner half suffused with black ; a minutely waved white 
postmedial line from discal fold to inner margin with black spots 
before and beyond it below vein 2; a waved white subterminal 
line from vein 7 to tornus, double between veins 4 and 2; cilia 
with series of small white spots at base; the underside white 
thickly irrorated with black, the terminal area suffused with black 
below vein 5, a black discoidal spot and medial line, postmedial 
line black defined on outer side by white, minutely waved, sub- 
terminal line white minutely waved, forming a bar at tornus, 
Hab. Prrax, Goping (Kiinstler), 1 2 type; Bornno,2 9. Exp. 
44-46 millim. 
Genus AON. 
Type. 
Aon, Neum, Ent. News, Philad. iii. p. 258 (1893) ............... noctuiformis. 
Proboscis absent ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 
vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair, the third porrect; frons 
sinooth, with large tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antenne of male bipectinate 
with long branches to apex; prothorax without crests, metathorax with spread- 
ing crest ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair 
at base but without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rectangular, 
the termen obliquely 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 stalked; 5 fully developed 
from just above angle of cell ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
6326. Aon noctuiformis. 
Aon noctuiformis, Neum. Ent. News, Philad. iii. p. 258 (1893); Dyar, 
Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1995. 
dg. Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous, the thorax with 
black bands behind the tegule and at extremity of metathorax ; 
pectus and legs with brown mixed, the tarsi blackish ringed with 
white; abdomen browish grey irrorated with blackish, the hair at 
base brown. Fore wing grey striated with brown and irrorated 
with a few large black scales, the cell and discal fold towards 
termen white, the terminal area below the cell tinged with rufous, 
