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anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 

 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ; male with a patch of 

 hyaline membrane in, below, and beyond cell. 



1756 a. Thybestba hyalophoea. 



Genus Babathea. 



Type. 



Barathra Hilbn. Verz., p. 218 (1827) brassicce. 



Copimames'.ta, Grote, A. M. N. H. (5) XI., p. 54 (1883). brassicce. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with 



hair, the 3rd short . 



» 



f rons smooth ; eyes 



large, rounded, not 

 ciliated ; antennae 

 of male minutely 

 ciliated ; tibiae fring- 

 ed with hair, the 

 Barathra brassicce. £ { fore tibia with long 



curved claw on outer side ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests, the one on basal segment large. Forewing with the terraen crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 

 3-4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocel- 

 lulars ; 6-7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 

 1691. Babathea bbassic/e insert (syns.). 



Mamestra andalusica, Staud. Cat., p. 9l) (1871). 



„ scotochroma, Rober. Iris. 1, p. 340, pi. xii., f. 13 (1884). 

 ,, decolorata, Staud. Stett Ent. Zeit 1889, p. 34. 



slraminea, Failla. Nat. Sic. X., p. 30, pi. 1, f. 5 (1890). 



Genus Discestba. 



Type. 



Discestra, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal B. M. V. p. 14 (1905) chartaria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in 

 front ; frons with semilunar corneous prominence with raised edges, a corneous 

 plate below frons ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with divided 

 crests ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Forewing with veins 3'5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3"4 f rom angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1679c. Discestba abenaeia, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. B. M. V., p. 16, pi. 78, f. 25 

 (1905). 



