34 NOCTUID.E. 



ft 3 . Fore wing with veins 8 and 10 



stalked ; 9 absent 34. HYPENODES, p. 98. 



ft 2 . Fore wing with a tuft of hair at 



middle of inner margin 35. ARBADE, p. 99. 



Genus ILYRGIS. 

 Ilyrgis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 879 (1859). 



Type, /. echephurealis, Wlk. 



Range. Ceylon. 



<3 . Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd of 

 moderate length and naked; antennae bipectinated, with the 

 branches long ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing 

 with the costa arched near base and at apex, which is slightly 

 produced ; the outer margin excurved at middle ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; a tuft of long scales from base of costa on underside ; the 

 retinacular tuft large. Hind wing with reins 3, 4 stalked, 5 from 

 lower angle of cell. 



2792. Ilyrgis echephurealis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 880 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. 

 ix, pi. 167, fig. 12 ; C. # S. no. 2938. 



3 Pale red-brown ; the head 



^= anc ^ co ^ ar whitish- Fore wing 



Y ^T^^5;} y with indistinct waved antemedial, 

 MB& ^^^ilSx sS : postmedial, and submarginal lines, 

 Vil (v^SS:^ ^ eac k white at costa, the post- 



* medial line excurved round cell. 



Hind wing with waved post- 

 medial and submarginal lines. 

 ^-Ceylon. Esp. 20 millim. 



Genus LITHOSIOPSIS, nov. 



Type, L. torsivena, Hmpsn. 



Range. Bhutan. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint thickly scaled and reaching above 

 vertex of head, the 3rd long ; antennae of male with long cilia ; 

 tibiae hairy. Fore wing with the inner margin much arched ; the 

 cell occupying nearly the middle of wing ; veins 2 and 3 curved at 

 base ; discocellulars short ; vein 6 from below angle of cell, 7 from 

 angle, 8, 9 stalked from before angle. Hind wing with vein 5 

 from near lower angle of cell ; 8 free from the base. 



2793. Lithosiopsis torsivena, n. sp. 



c? . Reddish brown, irrorated with dark scales. Fore wing with 

 two short, pale, subbasal lines ; the orbicular and reniform stig- 

 mata with pale outlines; ochreous medial and postmedial lines, 



