282 NOCTUIDJE. 



line. Hind wing pale, the veins and margins suffused with reddish 

 brown ; underside with cell-spot and postmedial series of specks. 



Fig. 150. Floccifera erigida, tf. \. 

 Hob. Thyetmyo, Burma. Sap. 44 milliin. 



Genus ARCILASISA. 



Arcilasisa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 470 (1865). 

 Tiracola, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351. 



Type, A. sobria, "Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Australia. 



Eyes minutely pubescent ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 obliquely porrect, with somewhat long hair below; thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts ; legs without spines. 



SECT. I. (Arcilasisa). Antennae fasciculated in male ; the 

 cilia of fore wing slightly crenulate. 



1939. Arcilasisa sobria, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 470; C. $ S. no. 1699. 



Uniform pale grey-brown ; fore wing irrorated with dark scales. 

 Underside of hind wing with a black cell-spot. 

 Hob. Kulu ; Sikhim ; S. India. Exp. 76 millim. 



SECT. II. (Tiracola). Antennae minutely ciliated in male ; 

 fore wing with the cilia strongly toothed. 



1940. Arcilasisa plagiata, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 740 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 148, figs. 1, la (larva); C. 8f S. no. 1996. 

 Agrotis plagifera, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 741. 

 Agrotis spectabilis, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 704. 



Pale grey-brown; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing often much 

 suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown ; an indis- 

 tinct waved antemedial line, often almost obsolete ; the orbicular 

 obsolete ; the reniform almost obsolete, ochreous or fuscous, some- 

 times on a dark patch ; traces of a postmedial curved series of 

 black specks ; a submargiual doubly curved ochreous line ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia whitish. 



