350 noctuid.t:. 



81G7. Trisuloides c-album. (Plate CCXXXIII. fig. 14.) 

 lamhmia c-attnim, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 525. 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white and some 

 red-hrown ; ]iectus whitish ; tarsi rinijed with Avhite ; ahdomeii 

 hrown mixed witli white. Fore wing bronze-brown suffused with 

 pur])le-grey ; subbasal hne blackish, crossed by a short black streak 

 in the cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 blackish, sinuous, angled outwards at submedian fold and incurved at 

 vein 1 ; orbicular minute, defined by black ; renifoiTn elliptical, defined 

 by black, with white annulus above and on inner side and yellow 

 streak from middle of outer edge ; medial line indistinct, blackish, 

 sinuous, a blackish patch beyond it below submedian fold ; post- 

 medial line double, blackish filled in with white and with some 

 white before it towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minvitely dentate, inciu'ved below vein 4 and excurved at 

 vein 1 ; subtenninal line blackish, somewhat dentate, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules slightly defined on inner side by whitish. Hind wing 

 dark brown ; a broad orange medial band from costa to vein 1, 

 its inner edge iiTegular, its outer angled at vein 4 ; a slight 

 yellowish line before termcn ; cilia chequered with white to 

 vein 2, then with whitish ti])s. Underside of fore Aving with the 

 basal half yellow, a yellow streak beyond the cell and some 

 yellowish above it on costa ; hind wing yellow, the veins streaked 

 Avith white, a l)lackish discoidiil spot, the costal area white irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area brown mixed with whitish, its inner 

 edge waved". 



ITah. W. C^I^•A, Chang-yang {Pratt), 8 $ tyi^e. Exp. 

 50 millim. 



Genus EL^ODES, nov. 



Type. E. hrevkomis. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi oWiqnelj' nptnrnecl, the 2ncl joint liardly 

 reaching to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, tlie 3rd short, 

 porrcet ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antenn.T; of male 

 typically serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clotlied witii hair and hair-like scales 

 and without crests; tibire fringed with long hair; abdomen with dor.sal series 

 of hairy crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate; veins Sand 5 from near angle of cell; (> from n]i|ier angle; 

 S) from 10 anntomosing witii 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Kind wing 

 with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 

 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; S anatomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with short fasciculate branches. 



A. Fore wing yellow tinged with green ; hind wing of male 



white vircscciis. 



B. Fore wing brownish grey sulTused in parts with olive-green ; 



hind wing greyish tinged witii fuscous brown acaiharta. 



