180 NOCTUID^. 



Pore wing bright pinlc tinged with greyish, the costal area rather 

 deeper except towards base, the base of inner margin whitish ; a 

 pink anteniedial line slightly bent inwards to costa, obsolescent and 

 slightly sinuous on inner area; orbicular a pink point, the reuiform 

 an ill-defined pink lunule ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved; cilia with a fine pink line through them. 

 Hind Aving pinkish white suffused with brown especially on terminal 

 area ; traces of a curved postmedial line ; ciha ochreous white ; the 

 underside brownish white, the costal area tinged with pink, an 

 indistinct discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing pale pink, the terminal area rather darker 

 and without brown tinge. 



Hah. S. Russia, Sarepta {Cliristnpli), Zeller, Frey, Leech, and 

 D'Emmick Colls. E.vp. 36-44 miilim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 162 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 74. 



Pale ochreous striated and speckled with dark brown, a broad 

 rufous dorsal stripe black on front of each somite and interrupted 

 on posterior part ; warts rufous ; stigmata white ringed with black; 

 head rufous. Pood-plant : Statice gmellni. 



Genus CALOPHASIDIA, nov. 



Type, C hiccda. 



Proboscis i'ully developed; palpi porrect, extending to well beyond fronsand 

 thickly sealed, the 3rd joint short ; frons wit)' corneous prominence with 

 raised' edges and central verticnl ridge ; eyes large, round; antennaj of male 

 bipectiuare with moderate branches to near apex; thorax thickly clothed with 

 hair and hiiir-like scales and without crests; fore tibiae with curved claw at 

 extremity on inner side, the mid and In'nd tibite moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 terraen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 aveole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 irom angle of cell ; 5 obsoles- 

 cent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennas of female with short branches ; frontal prominence with the 

 central process short. 



3783. Calophasidia lucala. 



Megalcdes lucala, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7; ix. p. 168 (1902). 



(5' . Palpi and frons black -brown slightly mixed with grey, 

 vertex of head grey, antennae red-brown ; thorax black-brown, the 

 outer part of tegulae and the patagia except upper edges white ; 

 pectus white tinged with brown ; the greater part of legs black- 

 brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen white dorsally 

 tinged with rufous and with shght dark bands at base. Pore wing 

 white, the costa black-brown, narrowing to base and expanding 

 somewhat towards apex, the inner area suffused with brown with 

 a diffused dark yntemedial patch, vein 1, the median nervure and 



