1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 377 



head flat above ; palpi large, thick, pointed at the tip, ascending to 

 the vertex and then projecting out in front ; legs moderately long, 

 laxly squamose ; antennse filiform. 



CULASTA INDECISA, n. Sp. 



Fore wing pale greyish ochreous, greyest externally, with an 

 indistinct oblique grey streak ascending from middle of posterior 

 margin to below the apex, the streak bordered on the inner side by 

 a contiguous brown line, which is broken and diffused at the apex, 

 and on the outer side by broader suffused brown lines ; a minute 

 brown dot at lower end of the cell, and a row of dots on outer 

 margin : hind wing whitish ochreous ; cilia white. Body, palpi, 

 and legs pale ochreous. 



Expanse ]| inch. 



Hab. Madras ; Bombay {Dr. Leith) ; Benares (Atkinson). In 

 coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. 



Fam. HyblvEIDjE. 

 Genus Phycodes. 



Phycodes, Gue'nee, Noct. xi. p. 389 (1852). 



Tegna, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1810 (1866). 



Wings elongated : fore wing narrow, rectangular ; exterior margin 

 almost erect ; costal vein extending two thirds the margin ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at half length of the cell, second at one 

 fifth, third, fourth, and fifth from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 very slender, slightly bent at each end, radials from the angles ; cell 

 very long and narrow, extending two thirds the wing ; upper and 

 middle median branches from angles at end of the cell, lower from 

 one fifth before the end ; submedian much waved. Hind wing long, 

 costal margin extending to length of fore wing, exterior margin 

 very oblique, abdominal margin short ; costal vein nearly straight, 

 extending to apex ; subcostal waved, first and second branches 

 emitted from immediately before end of the cell ; discocellular 

 slightly oblique and convex, radial from slight angle near its middle; 

 two upper median branches emitted at a short distance beyond end 

 of the cell, lower at one third before its end ; submedian straight, 

 internal vein curved. Body short, stout, smooth, abdomen thick ; 

 front of thorax and head projecting much beyond base of costa ; 

 palpi short, not extending beyond the head, second joint very broad 

 and flat, third joint minute, conical ; legs smooth, short ; middle 

 and hind tibiae short, thick, spined and with slight spiny tufts above ; 

 antennae thickened near the base, tips slightly clavate in male. 



Phycodes hirundinicornis. 



Phycodes hirundinicornis, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 389 (1852). 



Teffna hyblceella. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1810 

 (1866). 



Hab. N. and S. India (Lucknow, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay). 

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