600 NOCTUIDE. 
segments, the crest on 2nd segment large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 
the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, the tornus with scale-tooth, the 
inner margin lobed before middle; 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 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from 
just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
A. Fore wing with the reniform defined by whitish and with 
pale patch beyond it ......cesssecseteeecenseenseeeerseeeeeesenees barbata, 
B. Fore wing with the reniform absent and without pale 
patch beyond the cell .........:.ssseseesseeeneeeeeeeessenees acon nocturna. 
7017. Hypodeva barbata. 
Hypodeva barbata, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 27, pl. J. f. 2 (1804). 
Head and thorax dark brown mixed with red-brown and grey; 
pectus reddish ochreous; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous 
brown, the crests reddish brown, the ventral surface white. Fore 
wing yellowish suffused with olive-green; a broad purple band 
from discal fold to inner margin, diffused to base below the cell, 
before the antemedial white line which is represented by an 
oblique striga from costa and oblique sinuous line from discal fold 
to inner margin; reniform a narrow bar, greyish defined by white 
and with black point in upper part, a white patch above it on costa 
Fig. 241.—Hypodeva barbata, S. }. 
and some black streaks on the veins beyond it below costa; post- 
medial line chocolate-brown, acutely angled outwards below costa, 
then oblique, sinuous, the area beyond it purple with the costa 
chocolate-brown with some white strie on it; postmedial area 
with olive-yellow patches defined by red-brown and with the veins 
crossing them dark, at vein 6, on veins 4, 3, and at inner margin, 
the last almost entirely suffused with red-brown; traces of a 
sinuous white subterminal line and of a minutely waved line just 
before the terminal series of slight brown strie; cilia grey mixed 
with brown and with fine white line at base. Hind wing dark 
brown, the cilia white, brownish at base; the underside greyish 
suffused with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and yellowish white 
postmedial patch from costa to vein 5 with the veins on it dark. 
Hab. 8. Nieerta, Lagos (Boag), 1 ¢, Sapele (Sampson), 1 ¢, 
llesha (Dudgeon, Humfrey), 2.2; Gasoon. Exp. 34 millim, 
