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to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth : 

 eyes large, round ; antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest : 

 tibice moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Forewing with the apex rounded, the termen very slightly 

 crenulate and somewhat excised from vein 3 to tornus ; 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 ; S 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Forewing with two of the terminal points confluent 



and forming a lunule at discal fold. 



a. Forewing with small wedge-shaped Avhite marks 



before subterminal line above and below vein 4. . nocturna 



b. Forewing without small wedge-shaped white marks 



before subterminal line. 

 a^. Forewing with pale streaks on veins 6 and 4 



intersecting the dark postmedial patch . . harmonica, 



b^. Forewing without pale streaks on veins 6 and 4 



intersecting the dark postmedial patch . . tlmaitesi. 



B. Forewing without terminal lunule at discal fold. 



a. Forewing whitish suffused with grey-brown . . transversa, 



h. Forewing with the ground colour bright rufous . . rufescens. 



1838«. IaMBIA NOCTtJRNA. 



1889c. Iambia harmonica. 



1866. Iambia thuaitbsi. 



1867. Iambia transversa. 

 1870. Iambia rufescens. 



Genus Iambiodes, 



Typp. 



Iambiodes, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii., p. 659 (1908). anormalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons with 

 large prominence with raised corneous walls at extremity ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of female somewhat laminate ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the mesothorax with 

 small paired crests, the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiae modera- 

 tely fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Forewing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 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 



