98 NOCTUIDJ. 



ring-mark on fore wing better defined. Hind wing almost white, 

 without trace of a line. 



Hob. Accra, W. Africa ; Assam ; Andaman s. Exp. 14 millim. 



3003. Chusaris puncticilia, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 101, pi. 148, 



fig. 17. 



Bright ochreous ; abdomen fuscous, with ochreous anal tufts. 

 Fore wing with black speck at base ; a few dark scales representing 

 the antemedial line ; a black speck at end of cell ; traces of an 

 oblique postmedial band ; a series of black marginal specks. Hind 

 wing with indistinct cell-spot; the outer area suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Ilab. Nilgiris. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus HYPENODES. 

 Hypenodes, Gum. Delt. et Pyr. p. 41 (1854). 



Type, H. alUstriyalis, Haw., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Ceylon ; Hawaii. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint long and fringed with long hair above ; 

 the 3rd short, naked, and oblique ; the frontal tuft short ; antennae 

 ringed and minutely ciliated in male ; thorax smoothly scaled ; 

 abdomen with a basal dorsal tuft; tibiae almost naked. Fore 

 wing long and narrow ; veins 6 and 7 from near end of cell ; 8 and 

 1 stalked ; 9 absent. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked ; 

 5 from middle of discocellulars. 



3004. Hypenodes croceipicta, Hmpsn. Ill Het. ix, p. 121, pi. 166, 



fig. 23. 



Head brownish ochreous ; thorax purplish grey ; abdomen pale. 

 Fore wing dark purplish, irrorated with grey ; an oblique orange 



striga from costa near base ; a 

 dentate orange antemedial line 

 most prominent at middle, where 

 it has a black streak and spot on 

 its outer edge ; a black streak at 

 end of cell, with an orange striga 

 from the costa above it ; an 

 Fig. 47. Hypenodes croceipicta, <$ . }. oblique orange line from below 



apex to middle of inner margin, 



with some diffused grey beyond it; some white specks on costa 

 towards anex ; an indistinct submarginal white line ; a marginal 

 series of black specks. Hind wing whitish, with dark lunule at 

 end of cell ; the outer area slightly suffused with fuscous. 

 Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



