286 NOCTUID.E. 



SECT. II. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked. 

 A. Antennae of male ciliated. 



1949. Nonagria conspersa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 340; C. # S. 



no. 1710. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing pale ochreous, uniformly irro- 

 rated with rufous scales ; abdomen and hind wing pure white. 

 Hob. Calcutta. Exp. 44 millim. 



B. (Microsemyra.) Antennce of male serrate. 



1950. Nonagria pallida, Butt. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 155 ; C. # S. no. 865. 



Ochreous white. Eore wing slightly irrorated with fuscous. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



Hab. Mhow. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus ACRAPEX, nov. 



Type, A. prisca, "Wlk. 



Range. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. 



Differs from Nonagria in being more slenderly built ; in the 

 fore wing being more produced at apex ; vein 7 from or from just 

 beyond end of areole ; the hind wing with the outer margin ex- 

 curved at veins 2 to 4 ; veins 6, 7 and 3, 4 stalked ; vein 5 bent 

 at origin. 



1951. Acrapex prisca, Wlk. Cat xxxv, T>. 1953 ; C. $ S. no. 1687. 

 Senta cramboides, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 12, pi. 145, fig. 6 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 1718. 



Brownish ochreous ; fore wing 

 with the veins outlined with red- 

 brown ; a postmedial and slight 

 marginal series of specks ; a slight 

 apical streak. Hind wing ochre- 

 ous white, slightly suffused with 

 fuscous towards outer margin. 

 Fig. 154. Acrapex prisca, rf. }. Sab. Ceylon. Exp., <$ 34, <j> 



38 millim. 



1952. Acrapex hamulifera, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 91, pi. 161, 



fig. 5. 



c? . Brownish grey ; head and collar with an ochreous tinge ; 

 fore wing slightly suffused with ochreous and more so with black ; 

 a white hook-shaped mark on median nervure ; a pale oblique 

 apical streak ; a series of black specks on outer margin. Hind 

 wing pale fuscous. Underside of hind wing with cell-spot and 

 postmedial curved line. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



