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dentale pale olive green marks beyond them on termen ; cilia brown with a 

 series of whitish points at base. Hindwing greyish suffused with brown ; an 

 indistinct dark postmedial line ; cilia with a series of whitish points at base ; 

 the underside grey-white irrorated with brown, a diffused brown discoidal 

 spot and postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Kashmir. Exp. 36 mill. 



Genus Nyctycia. 



Type. 

 Nyctycia, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M. vi., p. 299 (1906) . . persimilis. 

 Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frontal tuft and 

 fringed with long hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes rather small and some- 

 what reniform ; antennae of male minutely serrate with fascicles of long cilia ; 

 head and thorax smoothly clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with spreading crests ; pectus and legs clothed with rather long hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing rather long and 

 narrow, the termen obliquely curved and somewhat 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 shortly 

 stalked; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; 6 - 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. — Palpi with the 3rd joint long and dilated at extremity. 

 1707a. Nyctycia plagiogbamma, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M., vi, p. 

 299 (1906). 



<$ . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; frons with black bar ; antennge blackish ; tegulse with black medial 

 shade ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous brown suffused with 

 fuscous except anal tuft and base of ventral surface. Forewing ochreous 

 brown irrorated with fuscous ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black point on costa ; antemedial line double 

 at costa, then single, oblique to submedian fold, then obsolete ; claviform 

 fuscous defined by black and confluent with lower edge of orbicular, which 

 has a slight greyish anhulus defined by black, somewhat oblique elliptical ; 

 reniform slightly defined by black, an irregular sinuous medial line; post- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate and 

 produced to short streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, oblique to 

 submedian fold, then bent outwards, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line greyish slightly defined on each side by black, minutely 

 waved, slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle, with black streaks beyond it 

 in the interspaces ; a fine waved terminal line ; cilia with fine pale line at 

 base. Hindwing yellowish brown tinged with fuscous, the termen rather 

 darker ; cilia brownish ochreous with a dark line through them ; the under- 

 side whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and indistinct 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



