534 NOCTUID^E. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head ; 

 a sharp frontal tuft ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae 

 not spined and moderately hairy. Fore wing with the costa highly 

 arched before the apex, which is acute. 

 . Larvce with 4 pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



The typical section (Sect. I.) has a large tuft of hair on mid 

 tibiae and a small tuft at base of hind tibiae. 



SECT. II. Palpi with the 3rd joint rather shorter than in the 

 typical section. Male with no tufts on tibiae. 



A. (Azazia). Hind wing with normal neuration in male ; 

 no fold on inner margin. 



a. Antennce of male with bristles and cilia. 



2592. Thermesia rubricans. Boisd. Faun. JEnt. Madaa., Lep. p. 106, 



pi. 16, fig. 1; C. $ S. no. 2815. 

 Therraesia transducta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1058. 

 Thermesia consueta, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Lep. Het. p. 93. 



Eufous or grey-brown ; palpi 

 chestnut. Fore wing with indis- 

 tinct subbasal curved line ; a white 

 speck in cell; the reniform very 

 large, with t\vo dark specks on it ; 

 a postmedial rufous line, very 

 highly angled below the costa and 

 joined by a dark apical streak ; a 

 Fig. 298. submarginal series of dark specks ; 



Thermesia rubricans, <$ . \. a rufous marginal line. Hind 



wing with rufous medial line, post- 



medial series of specks, and marginal rufous line. Underside 

 much suffused with red ; a white spot at end of cell, curved post- 

 medial line and submarginal series of black and white lunules. 



Hob. Africa ; throughout the Indian region ; Java and Pacific 

 Islands. Exp. 40-46 millim. 



2593. Thermesia subcostalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1059; C. $ S. 



no. 2774. 



$ . Grey, irrorated with red-brown. Fore wing with a brown 

 and fuscous fascia from base of inner margin to upper angle of 

 cell, and thence to apex ; an antemedial line from costa to sub- 

 costal nervure ; nearly straight medial and postmedial lines, angled 

 below the costa ; a submarginal line, angled outwards at vein 3, 

 then dentate to inner margin ; an almost marginal series of black 

 specks. Hind wing with speck at end of cell ; a medial oblique 

 line, joined at inner margin by a curved postmedial line ; a dentate 

 submarginal line ; an almost marginal series of dark specks. 



Hob. Moulmein. Earp. 40 millim. 



2594. Thermesia enervis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 231, pi. 8, 



fig. 8. 



$ . Differs from rivulosa (p. 536) in being more uniformly brown ; 



