168 NOCTUlDiE. 



Genus STILBINA. 



Type. 



Stilbina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 290 (1891) Tiypmnidcs. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, short, moderately fringed with hair below, 

 the 3rd joint minute ; irons with long bilobed corneous process with tuft of 

 hair above it and shorter corneous plate below it excised in front ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; build slender ; 

 thoi-ax clotlied with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax with spreading crest, 

 the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiaa smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; (> (roiu 

 upper angle; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areoie ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing witli veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocelliilars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one 

 third. 



3765. Stilbina hypaenides. 



Stilbina hy^pmnides, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 290, pi. 3. f. 12 (1891) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pai. p. 194. 



S . Head yellowish white ; sides of palpi and frons red-brown ; 

 thorax ochreons suffused with red-brown ; legs red-brown, the 

 tarsi fuscous with white rings ; abdomen oclireous white. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with pale ferruginous, the costal area suffused 

 with brown, the median nervure and base of veins arising from it 

 slightly streaked with white ; a dark mark at base of costa and 



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Fig. 22. — Stilbina liypcBiiides , (^ . {. 



small subbasal black mark above inner margin ; a slight brown 

 streak in basal half of submedian fold defined by whitish below : 

 antemedial line slight, black, angled outwards below costa and in 

 cell, then obsolete ; orbicular a large elongate elliptical black- 

 brown patch ; reniform a black-brown patch truncate above and 

 rounded below, where it is broken up by the white on veins at 

 lower angle of cell ; postmedial line represented by two dark points 

 on costa, then by a whitish line strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, defined by diffused blackish below and slight dark marks 

 above, then obsolete, some slight white striae from costa beyond it ; 

 subterminal line very faint, brownish, excurved below vein 7 and 

 obsolete below vein 5 ; a terminal series of slight red-brown striae ; 

 cilia chequered dark brown and whitish. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the terminal area suffused with pale red-brown ; the under- 

 side white tinged with reddish ochreous. 



2 . Fore wing tinged with brown instead of ferruginous ; the 



