54 NOCTUIDJE. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint smoothly scaled in front. Fuscous 

 brown ; fore wing with the base dark ; the autemedial area pale or 

 reddish brown, crossed by a more or less developed, ill-defined, 

 dark medial band ; a black speck or spot sometimes present at end 

 of cell ; the outer half of wing dark, with an indistinct pale waved 

 submarginal line. Hind wing pale, with indistinct cell-spot and 

 postmedial line, which are prominent on underside. 



The form lentalis is small, with the antemedial area of fore wing 

 reddish ; uliginosalis is large, with the antemedial area pale olive ; 

 whilst in latifascialis from the Andamans it is whitish. 



Hob. S. Africa ; Japan ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Andamans ; Borneo ; Celebes ; Australia. Exp. 24-30 millim. 



2847. Hydrillodes morosa, Butl. Ill Het. iii, p. 64, pi. 56, fig. 15 ; 

 C. Sf S. no. 2930. 



<5 . Differs from lentalis in the 2nd joint of palpi of male being 

 fringed with long scales in front so as to appear more angular. 



The Japanese form has the subbasal area of fore wing pale : the 

 Ceylonese form has it reddish, and the submarginal line reduced 

 to specks. 



Hub. Japan ; Ceylon. Exp. 24 millim. 



*2848. Hydrillodes transversalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 613 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 2974. 



Pale brown. Fore wing with waved medial white line. Hind 

 wing with the cilia chequered brown and grey. Underside pal<>, 

 with medial dark band, which is sinuous on. hind wing. Palpi and 

 legs black speckled. 



Hab. Andamans. Exp. 28 millim. 



B. Antenna?, of male minutely ciliated ; fore wing with veins 

 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 distorted and bent. 



2849. Hydrillodes torsivena, n. sp. 



c? . Differs from abavalis in being darker ; fore wing with the 

 postmedial series of specks less prominent. 



Hab. Sikhim (Moller}. Exp. 32 millira. Type in coll. Elwes. 



C. (Bibacta). Antenna? of male with long cilia ; fore iving ivith a small 

 fold at base of costa, containing an erectile tuft of long hair; the 

 apex truncate; vein II from angle of cell and very short. 



2850. Hydrillodes trnncata, Moore, Lev. Atk. p. 198. pi. 6, fig. 25 ; 



C. 8. no. 2967. 



c? . Dark fuscous brown. Fore wing with traces of medial and 

 submarginal waved lines. Hind wing pale fuscous ; underside with 

 cell-spot and medial and submarginal lines. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 



