THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 643 



Genus Euscotia. 

 1806. Euscotia inextricata. 



Genus Dichonia. 



Type. 



Dichonia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 217 (1827) . . . . . . areola. 



Xylocampa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1837, p. 227 . . areola. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, clothed 

 with long hair, the 3rd porrect; irons smooth, with large frontal tuft; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male typically nearly simple ; head 

 and thorax chiefly clothed with scales, the tegulse dorsally produced 

 to a ridge, the head, pro- and meta-thorax with spreading crests ; 

 pectus and tibise clothed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series 

 of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Forewing rather narrow, the termen 

 obliquely curved; 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 only. 



Sect. I. — Antennse of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with the terminal area blackish.. .. lubrica. 



B. Forewing with the terminal area concolorous. 



a. Forewing with bidentate white mark beyond the 

 claviform and black streak from it to post- 

 medial line . . . . . . . . obliquisigna. 



b. Forewing without bidentate white mark beyond 



the claviform, or black streak from it to post- 

 medial line . . . . . . . . chlorota. 



1778. Dichonia lubrica. 



1789a. Dichonia obliquisigna. 



17896. Dichonia chlorota, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (8), iv, p. 386 (1909). 



S • Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and some black ; 

 palpi and antennse blackish ; tarsi blackish with slight pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown, the crest on 3rd segment tipped with black. 

 Forewing grey-white suffused with brown and irrorated with black, the 

 medial area somewhat darker; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line black, oblique, sinuous, angled outwards above 

 inner margin, the area before it pale tinged with olive green ; claviform 

 whitish defined by black except above ; orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 annuli defined by black, the former round ; postmedial line black, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some 

 white points beyond it on costa with slight dark streaks between them ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of dentate brownish marks with 



