340 NOCTUIDE. 
thorax with slight crest ; fore tibia very broadly fringed on each side with 
hair, the mid and hind tibix moderately fringed, the fore and mid tarsi 
with slight tufts of scales at the joints; abdomen with dorsal series of hairy 
crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen typically evenly 
curved, crenulate; veins 38 and 5 from close to 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 fully developed from just 
above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 
middle. 
Sxcr. I. Antenne of male with fascicles of extremely long cilia. 
6647. Gadirtha trichocera, n. sp. 
6. Head and thorax brownish ochreous with some black scales ; 
abdomen brownish grey mixed with fuscous and with dorsal series 
of slight triangular marks defined by black strize. Fore wing 
brownish ochreous irrorated with black and suffused in parts with 
blue-green ; subbasal line represented by slight oblique double 
black striz from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; 
a tuft of black scales in middle of cell; reniform round, defined by 
black and with tuft of black scales in centre; a slight oblique 
minutely waved medial line from costa to discal fold, a round black 
spot beyond lower angle of cell, an oblique elliptical spot on base of 
vein 2 and a round spot above vein 1 just beyond the antemedial 
line ; postmedial line black, double and oblique from costa to discal 
fold, then single, inwardly oblique, dentate, and angled inwards at 
Fig. 124.— Gadirtha trichocera, $. 1 
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submedian fold, the veins beyond it streaked with black on apical 
area; subterminal line white, incurved and with some white suffusion 
beyond it from costa to vein 6, then indistinct, minutely waved 
and with slight black streaks beyond it on the veins; a fine waved 
black terminal line. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly 
suffused with fuscous with traces of the postmedial line on its 
inner edge and double black bar filled in with white at inner 
margin ; cilia white tinged with brown at base; the underside 
with the costal area tinged with brown, a slight discoidal 
lunule, 
9. Head and thorax tinged with green; fore wing with the 
basal costal area suffused with green; the antemedial area from 
