262 NOCTUIDE. 
above and below; frons smooth; a large ridge of hair from between antenne ; 
eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely 
with seales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with large spreading 
crest ; fore tibix fringed on both sides with long hair; abdomen with dorsal 
crest at base only. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa highly arched near 
base and the margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 
and not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell, 5 from above angle; 6 from 
upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow aerole, or 
vein 7 often separate; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked almost 
to termen; 5 fully developed from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 
A. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent inwards in sub- 
median interspace. 
a. Fore wing with the reniform eliptical and defined by 
JEG ec pees cae ganecanAnsuh SoeencHacee conipdo, onion suesdoonasouc malachitis. 
6. Fore wing with the reniform small, round, and not 
defined by black. 
a‘. Fore wing with the ground-colour pale yellow-green virescens. 
b'. Fore wing with the ground-colour not yellow-green. 
a*. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous grey. musculana. 
6%, Fore wing with the ground-colour not ochreous 
PREV Maes ves netnouiees Seebeeeatesnenere ene Peonata eesese TEVAYANG. 
LB. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique and minutely 
dentate from vein 4 to submedian fold, 
a. Fore wing with small black spot in submedian fold 
before subterminal line. 
a‘. Fore wing with small black spot on antemedial line 
above vein 1. 
a*, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved from 
below costa to vein 4 ...... Sodio Sagedddt a dakOoAnbca corcana. 
4?, Fore wing with the postmedial line angled out- 
wards at vein 6 and inwards at discal fold ...... parvella. 
b'. Fore wing without small black spot on antemedial 
line above vein 1. 
a*. Fore wing wholly suffused with red-brown. 
a*. Fore wing with the antemcdial line touching 
the postmedial line in submedian fold ....... -- symmicta. 
03, Fore wing with the antemedial line well sepa- 
rated from the postmedial line in submedian 
fold. 
«A, Wore wing without black streaks in the inter- 
spaces from subbasal to subterminal line ...  édica. 
b+, Fore wing with black streaks in the interspaces 
from subbasal to subterminal line ............  strigivenata. 
)°, Fore wing grey slightly tinged with brown. 
a. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled in- 
wards at discal fold. 
a‘, Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely 
dentate from below costa to vein 4. 
a, Fore wing with small black spot beyond the 
postmedial line at discal fold .,............. cand. 
08, Fore wing without black spot beyond the 
postmedial line at discal fold ............... grisea, 
3*, Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly 
dentate from below costa to vein 4............ sinwosa. 
b°, Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled 
inwards at discal fold. 
a4‘. Fore wing not tinged with green .......... seeee Minuta, 
b*. Fore wing tinged with green...,.........006+ w. —exophila, 
