526 NOCTUID ©. 
Genus AITETA. 
Type. 
AALELA. NVIK. IX) LOUIGLGOO)) weccctescessccvesdasssen sess nee musculina. 
Capotena, WiK. xi.) (14 (US00)" .tsccsnssceeasssteesssocattaeenaee apriformis. 
Brada, Wik-xv. 1 GG) (1U8H8)s hace. te csces verses eenaee cena tee truncata. 
Ohiladra, Wik, xxxiiiG39\(18Gd) \J2.1..2c.ccseeseseeceee eens musculina. 
(Phanaca, Wik. -xxxiii S56) (1865) cc. nc nce-ceecceceseetiee eset damnipennis, 
Thyrsoscelis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 473 ............ iridias, 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 
vertex of head and smoothly scaled, the Srd short, porrect ; frons smooth ; 
eyes large, round; antennz of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed 
with hair and hair-like scales and without erests; mid and hind tibie of male 
fringed with long hair, also the Ist joint of hind tarsus and the inner spurs; 
abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, in male very long with lateral 
fringes of downturned hair. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, 
the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 8 and 5 from near angle 
of cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areole ; 6 from the areole ; 
11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 38, 4 stalked; 5 fully developed from 
angle of cell or in male sometimes shortly stalked, with 3,4; 6, 7 from upper 
angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
A. Hind wing with more or less orange-red. 
a. Fore wing black-brown beyond an oblique line from 
middle of costa to inner margin before middle ...... gamma. 
b. Fore wing with the apical area black-brown from 
middle of costa to termen above tornus.................. veluta. 
c. Fore wing with triangular black-brown postmedial 
patch ion) Costa mie.csececesccere pace ses sees ceen oes ameereeees escalerai. 
d. Fore wing without black-brown. 
a’, Hind wing wholly orange-red. 
a2. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from 
costa beyond middle to termen at vein 2 ......... paralella, 
}2, Fore wing withthe postmedial line incurved below 
vein 4 to inner margin before tornus ............ meterythra. 
D. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area 
tinged ‘withired) (2. -o.2..68-<aacenesstcucestgseneaeareaaence thermistis. 
B. Hind wing uniform orange-yellow ..............sseeceseeens . costiplaga. 
C. Hind wing without red or yellow. 
a. Fore wing with oblique dark brown conical patch from 
middle of costa to submedian fold defined by whitish 
lines. 
a, Fore wing with the dark patch rounded below, its 
outer edge indented! 0:.:2:. «25 .ccmseseers desea as eres hampsoni. 
b‘, Fore wing with the dark patch pointed below, its 
outeriedge excurved(..--1.sc.c0se-enckees esetessteucon one. Crigon¢tphoras 
b, Fore wing without dark conical patch. 
a, Fore wing with the ante-aud postmedial lines and a 
streak in submedian fold pure white ...........2....5+ seripia. 
i, Fore wing without white lines and streak. 
a2. Fore wing with the lines defined by whitish 
suffusion ; underside of both wings with the 
costal areas fulvous yellow ............cceceseeseseees subflava. 
}?. Fore wing with the lines not defined by whitish 
suffusion; underside of both wings with the 
costal areas not yellow. 
a’, Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique and 
straight from costa to vein 3 towards termen. 
a‘, Fore wing with the costal edge white. 
a°, Fore wing purplish grey-brown ............ albicosta. 
b>. Fore wing rufous suffused with purplish... arédias. 
4, Fore wing with the costal edge not white ...  edaina. 
