198 tfOCTUID^E. 



The form cuprina is darker than sinuata, the hind wing black- 

 brown. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus HADENA. 



Hadena, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 2, p. 158 (1802). 

 Mamestra, Ochs. Sclimett. Eur. iv, p. 76 (1816). 

 Neuria, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x, p. 241 (1841). 



Type, H. cucubali, Schiff., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Eyes hairy ; palpi upturned and clothed with long hairs, the 

 3rd joint short ; antennae of male ciliated. Thorax squarely scaled 

 and flattened ; abdomen with dorsal tufts on proximal segments ; 

 tibiae not spined. Wings short and broad ; bind wing with 

 veins 3 and 4 from cell or on a very short stalk. 



SECT. I. Eore wing short and broad. 



1677. Hadena trifolii, Rott. Naturf. ix, p. 131. 

 Noctua chenopodii, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 156. 



Pale brown. Fore wing with three highly-waved lines before 

 the middle ; orbicular and reniform dark ringed, the former with 

 pale centre, the latter with dark ; claviforrn a black lunule ; a 

 curved, dentate, dark, postmedial line ; a pale irregularly waved 

 submarginal line with a W-mark at centre ; some small dark luuules 

 on margin ; cilia with pale streaks. Hind wing pale, the veins 

 and a broad marginal band fuscous ; cilia white. 



Halt. Europe ; Campbellpur. Exp. 36 millim. 



1678. Hadena perdentata, n. sp. 



. Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with dark brown, red- 

 brown, and grey hair. Fore wing pale brown, suffused with leaden 

 grey ; subbasal and antemedial ochreous dentate lines with black 

 edges, the latter highly dentate above inner margin ; the orbicular 

 ochreous with brown centre ; the reniform. leaden grey, with 

 ochreous inner edge ; the claviform very large, with black outline 

 and a pale dentate patch beyond it ; a crenulate postmedial line ; 

 an ochreous submarginal line very highly dentate at centre and 

 with some dark suffusion inside it. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 with the cilia whitish. Underside with cell-spot and postmedial 

 line. 



Hob. Kashmir (McArtliur). Exp. 42 millim. Type in coll. 

 Leech. 



