376 NOCTUIDE. 
costal area, a medial patch below the cell and the terminal area 
rather whiter ; antemedial line blackish defined on outer side by 
whitish except towards inner margin, oblique to median nervure, 
then inwardly oblique and somewhat dentate ; small black spots 
sbelow middle of cell, in middle of cell, and two obliquely placed 
on the discocellulars; a slight dark bar across the cell before 
extremity ; postmedial line dark, bent outwards and almost obsolete 
below costa, then waved, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique 
to middle of inner margin and met at vein 1 by an oblique 
dentate black line from median nervure defined on inner side by 
white, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 
whitish, dentate and defined on inner side by dentate brown marks, 
slightly bent inwards below vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black 
spots. Hind wing dark chocolate-brown. 
Hab. Trixipap, Cuparo (Birch), type tT 2 in Coll. Druce. 
Exp, 36 millim. 
Genus STENISCADIA, nov. 
Type, S. poliophea. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, 
reaching to far above vertex of head and fringed with hair above towards 
extremity, the 3rd long and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons smooth, with 
ridge of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of female almost simple; 
thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the 
metathorax with slight depressed crest ; tibia moderately fringed with hair ; 
abdomen with dorsal crest at base ouly. Fore wing long and narrow, the 
margins subparallel, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not 
crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from well above angle; 6 from 
upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long very narrow 
areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 
absent, coincident with 3; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the 
cell to middle. 
6698. Steniscadia poliophza, n. sp. 
. Head and thorax brownmixed with grey-white, the tegule red- 
brown edged with whitish; palpi whitish at base and at base of 3rd 
joint ; pectus and legs whitish, the fore tibiee and tarsi brown above ; 
Fig. 142.—Steniscadia poliophea, 2. }. 
abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish except towards 
extremity. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated with black-brown 
and tinged with rufous in submedian interspace ; traces of a double 
waved subbasal line, a diffused black patch from costa to median 
neryure before the antemedial line, which is double, black filled in 
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