THE MOrms 01 IX 1)1 A. 893; 



angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins o'4 from angle of cell; o obsolescent from well below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6-7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the- 

 cell near base only. 

 2016. Cytocanis denxicitlosa. 



Genus Elydna. Type. 



^/y<?w«, Wlk. XV., 1712 (1858) .. .. .. transL-erm.. 



Dyrzela, Wlk., xv., 1758 (1858) . . . . . . plaijiaia. 



Dadica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 349 . . . . . . lineom. 



liadmacm, Bvitl., A. M. N. H. (5) i., p. 161 (1878) . . cinerascens. 



Leucocosmia, Butl.^ Trans. Ent. Soc, 1886, p. 394 . . reclusa. 



Floccifera, Hmpsn., Moths. Ind. ii., p. 281 (1894) . . eriyida. 



Sect I. — AntenniB of male bipectinate with long branches to just beyoncT 

 middle, the apical part ciliated. 



1886. Elydna bosca. 



Sect II. — {Dyrzela). — ^Antennee of male strongly serrate above to middle,, 

 strongly fasciculate below. 



1886. Elydna plagiata. 



Sect III. — Antennee of male ciliated. 



A. (Leueocosniia). Vertex of head of male with a cleft corneous ridge- 



clothed with scales ; abdomen clothed with woolly pile ; fore and 

 hindwings clothed with woolly hair above. 

 1875. Elydna reclusa. 



Prodenia reclusa, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi, p. 185 (1862). 

 Amphipyra ayrotoides, Snell, Tijd. v., Ent. 1880, p. 77, pi. 6, f, 6. 

 Radinacra thoracica, Moore, Lep. Oeyl. iii, p. 31, pi. 148, f. 4,. 



(1884). 

 Leucocosmia ceres, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1886, p. 394, pi. 9, f. 10.. 

 Caradrina euthusa, Hmpsn., 111. Het. B. M. viii, p. 79, pi. 145, f . 1 

 (1891). 

 „ heliarcha, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1897, p. 370. 



,, unipunctata, Beth. Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii., p. 201 (1906). 



„ insiynifica , Beth. Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii, p. 201 (1906). 



B. Vertex of head of male normal. 



a. [Iloccifera). Abdomen of male with large sublateral tufts of 



flocculent hair from base. 

 1938. Elydna brigida. 



Aletia eriyida, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1890, p. 221. 

 Caradrina crenulata, Beth. Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii, p. 202 (1906). 



b. Abdomen of male without sublateral tufts of long hair from base. 

 a' . Hindwing of male with the costal area on underside clothed 



with rough downturned scales with thicker ridge of scales 

 along subcostal nervure. 



