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double, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, obsolete below vein 1, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa often present ; subterminal line ochreons white, defined on 

 inner side by prominent dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 inwards in submedian fold, some red-brown suffusion beyond it, the apex 

 usually ochreous ; a terminal series of small black lunules : cilia grey with 

 black lines through them. Hindwing fuscous ; the cilia pale with a brown 

 line near base ; the underside pale, the costal and terminal area thickly irrorated 

 with fuscous, a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Habitat— W. China ; Punjab, Simla, Dalhousie, Dharmsala. Exp. 44 mill. 



1686. Odontestra submarginaus, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het., p. 32 (I862), 

 has priority over incisa. 



M 



Odontestra submarginalis. $ \ . 



Genus Hadena. Type. 



Hadena, Schrank, Faun. Boica, II (2), p. 158 (1802) reticulata. 



Neuria, Guen. Noct. I, p. !66 (1852), nee Guen. 1841, non 



descr reticulata. 



Dargida, Wlk. IX. , 401 (1856) graminivora. 



Eupsephopactes, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. I, p. 138, 



pi. iv., f . 6 (1873) , , procincta. 



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

 with hair in front, the 3rd short ; irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas 

 of male ciliated ; thorax quadrately clothed with hair and scales, prothorax 

 typically with divided crest ; pectus clothed with long hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest on basal segment, clothed with woolly hair at base and with 

 lateral fringe? of hair towards extremity. Forewing rather narrow, the apex 

 produced and the termen obliquely curved, the cilia crenulate ; veins 3 and 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 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



A. Forewing with the postmedial line strongly excurved 



from below costa to vein 4, then oblique dissecta. 



B. Forewing with the postmedial line moderately excurv- 



ed from below costa to vein 4, then incurved reticulata. 



L684. Hadena dissecta, ineert (sy 11.) Alcmalra crucifer, Feld . Reis. Nov. , 

 pi. 109, f. 30 (1874). 



