182 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVII. 



fold ; an oblique waved antemedial line angled inwards on vein 1 and defined 

 by greyish on inner side ; claviform hardly visible, defined by a few dark 

 scales ; orbicular and reniform very indistinct, defined by a few dark scales, the 

 former round ; an indistinct curved medial band ; postmedial line strongly 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4 

 subtermiaal line indistinct, pale, defined by obscure somewhat dentate 

 fuscous marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle 

 a terminal series of black points. Hindwing suffused with fuscous brown 

 the terminal area rather darker ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown 

 a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with short dark streaks on the veins 



Habitat.— Kashmik, Nubra. Exp. 40 mill. 



Genus Tjracola. Type. 



Tiracola, Moore P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351 plagiata. 



1940. Tiracola plagiata, insert (syn.) Agrotis grandirena, Herr Schaff. 

 Corresp-blatt. Eegensb. 1868, p. 149. 



Habitat.— W. Indies ; C. & S. America ; W. China ; India ; Ceylon ; 

 Singapore ; Borneo ; Java ; N. G-uinea ; Australia ; Tahiti ; Marquesas. 



Genus Chabuata. 



Type. 



Chabuata, Wlk., XIV. 1034 (1857) ampla. 



Tricliolita, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. II., p. 211 (1875). signata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the second joint fringed 

 with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; head 

 and thorax clothed with rough hair and scales, the prothorax with triangular 

 crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibiae clothed with rough hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base and slight lateral fringes of hair. Forewing 

 with 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sec. III. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Abdomen of male with paired ventral tufts of long hair from base. 



a. Forewing yellow, irrorated and striated with 



rufous „ distincta. 



b. Forewing reddish or grey tinged with red, irrorated 



and striated with brown obscura. 



1921. Chabuata distincta. 



Fig. 54. Chabuata distincta $ 1. 



