t)S NOCTUID^. 



(lark lines, -n-hich are not waved, the most distinct of which is the outermost, which is curved 

 inwards below the obscure reuiform ; a dark patch on the costa before the apex with some 

 pale costal strigse; a submarginal series of white specks. Hind wing and underside fuscous ; 

 underside of hind wing with indistinct cell-spot and postmedial and submarginal lines. 



Ozarba mianoides. (Plate CLXII. fig. 16.) 



Expanse f inch. 



Male. Head and thorax brown. Fore wing with the basal half dark umber-brown, 

 crossed by indistinct waved lines, its outer edge angled below the median uervure ; the outer 

 half pale brown ; the apex and outer margin, except at the onter angle, darker and traversed 

 by an indistinct, pale, submarginal line. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous. 



Metachrostis undulata. (Plate CLXII. fig. 20.) 



Expanse f inch. 



Male. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, powdered with black and crossed by numerous 

 indistinct, waved, black lines ; a black speck near the base ; rcniform fuscous ; a fuscous 

 streak below the apex ; a marginal series of black specks. Hiud wing uniform ochreous. 

 Underside pale ochreous brown : fore wing suffused with fuscous ; hind wing with indistinct 

 cell-spot and postmedial line. Palpi black below and with the third joint black ; a black 

 spot on the tegulse. 



ANACHROSTIS, g. n. 



Allied to Metachrostis, Hiib. ; the third joint of the palpi shorter ; the antennae simple in 

 female ; the second subcostal of the fore wing bifid, not trifid ; the subcostals and two median 

 nervules of the hind wing on a footstalk from the end of the cell ; no radial uervule. 



Anachrostis nigripuncta. (Plate CLXII. fig. 19.) 



Expanse | inch. 



Female. Pale brown. Fore wing with a dark subbasal speck in the cell ; dark waved 

 antcmcdial, postmedial, and submarginal lines ; a black speck in the position of the rcniform ; 

 some ochreous strigaj on the costa towards tlie apex ; a series of black marginal specks. 

 Underside of hind wing with a cell-spot and faint postmedial line. 



ERASTROIDES, g. n. 



Antennse ciliated ; palpi with the second joint heavily scaled, the third joint short. Fore 

 wing with the costal nervurc two thirds the length of the wing; the first subcostal at two 

 thirds the length of the cell; the tiiird quadrifid ; the upper radial from the end of the cell ; 

 the lower radial and third median from the lower end; the second and first medians from 



