48 NOCTUIDjE. 



extremely long, and fringed with hair above, the 2nd joint bent 

 back at an acute angle to above vertex of head, the 3rd a long 

 flattened process with a tuft of long hair from its base ; antennae 

 with long bristles and cilia ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 

 tibiae slightly hairy. Fore wing with the apex slightly acute. 

 Hind wing with vein 5 from near lower angle of cell. 



$ . Palpi with the 1st joint short, the 2nd curved or obliquely 

 upturned and of moderate length, the 3rd upturned, long, and 

 very slender. 



The typical American section has a sheath to the fore tibia con- 

 taining a mass of flocculent scales. 



SECT. II. Fore tibia with no sheath containing flocculent scales. 



A. Each joint of palpus in male very long, the 3rd extending 

 to middle of abdomen. 



2831. Mastigophorus brontesalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 151. 

 Mastygophora scopigeralis, Moo?-e, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 86 ; Waterh. 



Aid, ii, pi. 173, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. no. 2964. 



c? . Dark fuscous red-brown ; palpi with the tuft ochreous. 



Fore wing with the basal area and a broad postmedial sinuous 



band darkest ; two dark specks often present at end of cell ; in- 

 distinct dark lines parallel 

 to each edge of the post- 

 medial band; a pair of 

 black specks on the inner 

 line and inner edge- of band 

 above inner margin ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black specks. 

 Hind wing with traces of 

 a broad dark postmedial 



Fig. 22. Mastigophorus brontesalis, 3 . \. band, with a line before its 



inner edge and a series of 



specks beyond its outer. Underside whitish, with lunule at end 



of cell, crenulate postmedial line, and fuscous outer area, with 



waved pale submarginal line to each wing. 



$ . With the fore wing more uniformly coloured, and without the 



pair of dark specks above inner margin. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Sibsagar ; Borneo. Exp. 42 milliin. 



2832. Mastigophorus duplicifascia, n. sp. 



cJ . Dark fuscous brown. Fore wnng with large black reniform 

 spot; an oblique ochreous postmedial band traversed by a dark 

 line ; a highly sinuous submarginal pale line ; a marginal series of 

 black specks. Hind wing pale fuscous, with pale oblique medial 

 line and traces of a waved submarginal line ; a marginal series of 

 black specks. Underside with cell-spot, waved postmedial and 

 Bubmargina] lines to each wing. 



Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. Type in B. M. 



