,:G NOCTUID^E. 



Genus NODAKIA. 



\ .daria, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 63 (1854). 

 Z mclognatha, Led. Noct. p. 211 (1857). 

 Hipcepa, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 188 (1858). 

 Lobocheilos, Hmpsn. 111. Ret. viii, p. 98 (1891). 



Type, N. externalis, Guen. 



Range* Europe ; S. Africa ; Mauritius ; Japan ; China ; Formosa ; 

 throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo. 



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

 with a tuft of hair on inner side, usually in the males only ; 

 antennae of males with long bristles and cilia ; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled. Fore wing with the apex rectangular ; the outer 

 margin rounded ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, often with a minute areole 

 at their base. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of 

 cell or on short stalks ; 5 from near middle of discocellulars. 



SECT. I. Fore tibia of male with a large sheath covering the whole 

 of the tarsus and enclosing a mass of flocculent scales. 



A. Antennae of male knotted nnd contorted at middle. 



2854. Nodaria externalis, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 64 ; C. $ S. no. 2986. 

 Bocana aesopusalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 185. 



Herminia cinerealis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1159. 



Miana indecisa, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1057. 



Diomea bryophiloides, Butt. A. M. N. H. (4) xvii, p. 408 (1867). 



Bocana triatis, But 1. III. Het. iii, p. 65, pi. 57, fig. 2. 



Hydrillodes indistincta, Butl P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 681. 



Nodaria cingala, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 233 ; C. $ S. no. 2985. 



Aginna laevicula, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 417, pi. 43, fig. 14. 



c? . Head and thorax fuscous brown ; the abdomen paler. Fore 

 wing dark fuscous brown, with indistinct ante- and postmedial 

 waved lines ; a submarginal sinuous line, with a series of ochreous 

 specks on it; an indistinct lunule at end of cell. Hind wing pale 

 fuscous. 



$ . Darker. 



Hab. S. Africa ; Mauritius ; Japan ; Formosa ; throughout 

 India, Ceylon, and Burma; Borneo. Exp. 26-30 millim. 



2855. Nodaria flavifusca, n. sp. 



$ . Dark fuscous brown, with a yellowish tinge. Fore wine: 

 \vith some ochreous suffusion at base; an irregular ochreous line 

 from costa before apex to vein 6. Hind wing fuscous. 



Hab. Niigas (Doherty). Exp. 36 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



B. Antenna; of male not knotted and contorted nor serrate. 



2856. Nodaria innocens, Huti. ill. Hct. iii, p. 63, pi. 50, fig. 10. 

 Zudognatba undulata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 193; C. $ S. no. 2970. 

 1 1- rniinia liueosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 193 ; C. # S. no. 2950. 



