396 NOCTTJIDJE. 



SECT. V. Antennae of male with short fasciculated cilia ; 

 thorax and abdomen more slender. 



2273. Eutelia discistriga, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 823 j C. $ S. 



no. 2203. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with pale and dark scales ; 

 the collar with a chestnut tinge. .Fore wing clothed with pale and 

 dark brown and chestnut scales ; numerous ill-defined lines on 

 the basal area ; a pale patch with a dark hoop above it at end of 

 cell ; the postmedial dark line with a quadrangular sinus beyond 

 cell and with traces of other lines beyond it ; an indistinct irregu- 

 larly waved submarginal pale line. Hind wing whitish ; the veins 

 and outer area fuscous. 



Hab. Aden; Karachi; Nilgiris. E.rp. 34 millim. 



2274. Eutelia favillatrix, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1778 ; C. $ S. no. 2204 ; 



Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, pi. 163, fig. 15. 



Differs from discistriya in the head, thorax, abdomen, and fore 

 wing being variegated with crimson, orange, and ochreous scales ; 

 some metallic-blue scales on metathorax ; a whitish dorsal patch 

 on centre of abdomen. Fore wing with a raised tuft of brown 

 scales at centre of cell and crimson tuft at end of it. 



Hab. Throughout India and Ceylon. Exp. 28 millim. 



Subfamily STICTOPTERIN^l. 



Palpi slender and of moderate length. Abdomen hardly longer 

 than the hind wing. Fore wing increasing in width to outer 

 margin, usually long and narrow, with raised tufts more or less 

 developed; vein 6 from angle of cell; 8 given off from 7 and 

 anastomosing with 9 to form an areole. Hind wing usually hyaline 

 at base, with vein 5 from the lower angle and fully developed. 



Larvce with 4 pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Antennae of normal length. 



a. Fore wing- hooked at outer angle 4. ODONTODES, p. 400. 



b. Fore wing not hooked at outer angle. 



a'. Abdomen smoothly scaled 1. MACEDA, p. 397. 



b'. Abdomen with dorsal tufts on prox- 

 imal segments 2. CYMATOPHOKOPSIS, 



B. Antennae very long. [p. 397. 



a. Fore wing of moderate breadth. 



a'. Fore wing with the cilia non-crenu- 



late ; frenulum divided in female . . 3. RISOBA, p. 398. 

 b'. Fore wing with the cilia crenulate ; 



frenulum single in female 5. STICTOPTERA, p. 400. 



b. Fore wing long and narrow. 



a'. Fore wing extremely long 6. SADABSA, p. 404. 



b'. Fore wing shorter 7. GYRTONA, p. 404. 



