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and with a terminal series of slight dark lunules ; the underside with 

 the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, 

 faint traces of postmedial line with blackish spot in submedian fold and 

 terminal series of slight dark lunules. 



5 . Hindwing with indistinct sinuous postmedial line and the terminal 

 area more suffused with fuscous. 



Habitat. — Punjab, Kulu, Sultanour. iv.rp. 50-54 mill. 



1819. ACRONYCTA RTJBIGIlSrOSA. 



Acronycta rubirjinosa, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi., p. 178, (1862). 

 Tiicena denticulata, Moore, P. Z. S., 1888, p. 408 ; Butl., 111. Het, 

 B. M. vii., p. 45, pi. 125, f. 8. 

 1815, Acronycta gastridia. 



Acronycta aceris, Hmpsn., Moths. Ind. ii, p. 241 (nee. Linn.) 

 „ gastridia, Swinh., A. M. N. H. (6) xv, p. 5 (1895). 

 1821. Acronycta bicolor. 



Genus Simyra. 



Tyi)e. 



Simyra, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv,, p. 18 (1816), non. descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. (5) ii, p. 280 (1825) . . albovenosa. 



Arsilonche, Led. Noct. Eur., p. 70 (1857). . . . . . albovenosa. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending to beyond the 

 frons and clothed with long hair ; frons smooth ; eyes rather small, round ; 

 autennse of male typically laminate ; thorax clothed with hair only and 

 without crests ; tibise fringed with long hair ; abdomen dorsally clothed 

 with rough hair at base and with lateral fringes of hair, but without crests. 

 Forewing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 obliquely curved and not 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 or shortly stalked ; 5 

 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6-7 from upper angle : 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Forewing nearly uniform rufous, the costal edge white . albicosta. 



B. Forewing with the costal edge not white. 



a. Forewing pale rufous thickly irrorated with rufous . . confusa. 



b. Forewing ochreous white sj arsely irrorated with 



rufous . . . . . . . . . . conspersa. 



1944a. Simyra albicosta. 



Simyra albicosta, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. viii, p. 178, 



pi. 127, f. 15 (1909). 



5 . Head and thorax white, the head, tegulse, prothorax, front of pectus 



and legs suftused with rufous ; abdomen white tinged with red-brown. 



Forewing rufous, the costal edge white, the median nervure and veins of 



