316 NOCTUIDJE. 



black, the cilia pale. Underside of fore wing yellow, with irregular 

 black markings ; hind wing with black cell-spot and postraedial 

 and submarginal bands. 



Hab. Europe ; Turkestan ; Japan ; China ; Baluchistan ; Af- 

 ghanistan. Exp. 24 millim. 



2037. Tarache flavonigra, Szcink. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pi. 47, fig. 15 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 3026. 



Head and collar fuscous black ; thorax and abdomen ochreous. 

 Tore wing with the base pale ochreous ; a black spot at base of 

 costa ; the outer two- thirds of wings fuscous black. Hind wing 

 pale. 



In the Bombay specimen the distal part of the abdomen and 

 hind wing are dark fuscous. 



Ifab. Aden; Sind: Bombay. Exp. 16-20 millim. 



Genus XANTHOPTERA. 



Xanthoptera, Gum. Noct. ii, p. 240 (1852). 

 Phyllophila, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 254. 

 Bagada, Wlk. Cat. xv, P . 1753 (1858). 

 Hiccoda, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 134 (1882). 



Type, X. botyoides, Guen., from Brazil. 



Range. Nearctic, Neotropical, and Oriental regions. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, and smoothly scaled ; 

 antenna minutely ciliated in male ; thorax and abdomen without 

 tufts. Fore wing rather short and broad, vein 8 given off from 7 

 and anastomosing with 9, which is given on: from 10 to form Ihe 

 areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from cell or on a very short 

 stalk. 



Larvae, with 4 pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



SECT. I. Female with antennas almost simple. 



2038. Xanthoptera marginata. Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1775 ; Ilmpm. 



III. Set. viii, pi. 143, fig. '21. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing bright straw-yellow; the last with 

 a marginal black band, bordered inwardly by a deep black slightly 

 waved line. Abdomen, hind wing, and underside fuscous or smoky 

 black . 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Nilgiris ; Java. Exp. 20 millim. 



2039. Xanthoptera flavifrons, Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, p. 552, pi. 214, 



fig. 8 ; C. $ S. no. 2824. 



c? Uniform brownish ochreous ; the head bright yellow ; an- 

 tennae and base of palpi fuscous ; the front of thorax tinged with 

 fuscous. Fore wing with a slight purplish tinge. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 24 millim. 



