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B Prothorax with spreading crest. 



a. Abdomen of female with the extremity blunt, the ovipositor not 

 exserted. 

 a'. Forewing with the subterminal line dentate on veins 4-3 and 

 forming a distinct W-mark. 

 a 3 . Forewing with black streak below base of cell, preedita. 

 b~. Forewing without black streak below base of 

 cell. 

 a ■''. Forewing with the postmedial line incur- 

 ved between veins 5 and 2. 

 a\ Forewing with the orbicular small, nar- 

 row, oblique eliptical furcula. 



b 4 . Forewing with the orbicular well de- 



Velo P ed ■ schneideri. 



b\ Forewing with the postmedial line oblique, 



waved below vein 2 perdentata. 



b : . Forewing with the subterminal line not forming 

 a distinct W-mark. 

 «-'. Forewing with the reniform large, kidney- 

 shaped. 

 a 3 . Forewing with the ground-colour purplish 

 grey, 

 a*. Forewing with pale dentate mark on base 



o£veia2 dentina. 



b*. Forewing without pale dentate mark on 

 base of vein 2. 



a\ Head and teguhe not white.... (jlauca. 



I s . Head and teguhe white cnivetti. 



6 3 . Forewing with the ground-colour reddish 



brown pannosa. 



e A . Forewing with the ground-colour grey- 



white dysodea. 



b . Forewing with reniform small, narrow, and 

 angled inwards to orbicular on median 



nervure , „, 7 - 



meduma. 



1678.a. Miselia pr.edita, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 595 (1827) ; Led. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1870, pi. 1, f. 11 ; Staud.Cat. Lep. Pal, p. 16o'. 



Head, thorax and abdomen grey, slightly tinged with fuscous. Forewing 

 grey, the antemedial and medial areas tinged with fuscous except towards costa 

 and mner margin ; a black streak below base of cell; subbasal line absent- 

 antemedial line defined by white on outer side, oblique from co 6 ta to submedian 

 fold, then nearly erect ; claviform almost obsolete, a dentate whitish mark 

 beyond it on base of vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform with brownish centres and 

 Mhite annuh defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above ; the 



