1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PIEAUSTIN^E. 231 



ciliated ; tibiae with the outer spurs two-thirds length of inner. 

 Fore wing with a large tuft of rough hair on inner margin before 

 middle ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 

 7 straight and Mell separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with veins 3, 

 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



Type. (1) CtKtEDA dentalis Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 120 ; & Dup. Lep. Fr. 

 viii. pi. 215. f. 1. Europe ; W. Asia. 



Noctua fahninans Fabr. Ent. Syst. no. 311. 

 Phalcena 7'amalis Fabr. Eut. Syst. no. 378. 

 Noctua radiata Esp. iv. p. 374. 



(2) CYiif^jDA FURiosA Stgr. List, xxxiii. Syi-ia. 



Auctorum. 



Odontia exoticalis Snell. Tijd. v. Eut. xviii. p. 191, pi. xi. f, 3. 



W. Indies. 



Genus 138. Mnesicten-a. 



. Mnesictena Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 328. 



Palpi porrect, extending about one and a half times length of 

 head, triaugularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; maxillary 

 palpi strongly dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; antennae of 

 male minutely ciliated ; tibiae with the outer spurs two-thirds 

 length of inner. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 separate at origin; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. 

 Hind wing with the median nervure loosely pectinated ; vein 3 

 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fie. 138. 



Mnesictena quadralis, J . \. 



Type. (1) Mnesictena quadjiaeis Doubl. Dieff. N. Zeal. i. p. 288. 



New Zealand. 

 „ marmorina Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 329. 



(2)tMNESiCTENA NOTATA Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 493. New Zealand. 



(8) Mnesictena flavidalis Doubl. Dieff. N. Zeal. i. p. 287. 

 fScoptda dipsascdu Wlk. xviii. 79(3. New Zealand. 



Botys otagalis Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 134. f. 35. 



