266 NOCTUID^. 



outer side and postmedial line on inner side strongly defined by black 

 on inner area. — N. S. Wales. 



Bab. Britain (Dohree-Fo.v) ; Netherlands, Borkum T. ; France, 

 Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Engadine, Leech Coll.; Spain, Catalonia, 

 Zeller Coll., type junceti, Sierra Nevada (Walsingham), Gibraltar; 

 Italy, Capri (C. S. Browne), Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Dalmatia, Prey & 

 Leech Colls. ; Algeria (Mrs. NiclioU), 1 d , 1 $ ; Morocco, Tangier 

 (Leech), 1 S , 1 $ ; Madeira ( Wollaston), 1 $ ; Canaries, Teneriffe 

 (Leech, W. White), 1 c? , 1 $ , Guimar ( Walsingham), 1 S ; 

 S. EussiA, Sarepta (Christoph) ; Cyprus (Miss Bate), 1 S ; Asia 

 Minor ; Syria, Lebanon (Pratt), 1 S , Mardin ; Up. Egypt, Aboukir 

 (Graves), 1 6, Etbai (McAlister), 1 S : Sokotra, Abd-el-Kuri 

 (Grant), 1 S , Hadibu Plain (Grant), 1 5 ; Br. E. Africa, Machakos 

 (Craivshay), 1 c? , 1 $ , Eb Urru (Betion), 1 $; Bechuanaland, 

 N'Gami (Lugard), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Transvaal, Piet Eetief (Crawshay), 



1 2 , Pretoria (Janse), 2 5 ; Orange R. Colony, Bloemfontein 

 (Eckersley), 1 $ ; Natal, Estcourt (Butchinson), 2 $ , Tugela R. 

 (Reynolds), 1 J , 1 2 , Durban (Leigh), 1 d , 1 $ ; Basutoland, 

 Maseru (Craivshay), 1 $ ; Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith), 1 c? , 1 $ , 

 Deelfontein (Col. Sloggett), 1 J ; Aden (Yerhury, Grant), 1 c? , 



2 $ ; Persian Gtjli', Fao (Cumming), 2 d" ; Japan, Yokohama 

 (Pryer), 1 cf ; Centr. China, Ichang (Mrs. Pratt), 1 5 ; Punjab, 

 ^imla (Reed, Barford), 2 5, Cambellpur (Yerhury), d c?, 1 2i 

 Dharmsala (Backing), 2 c? , 3 $ , Allahabad, 1 $ , Manpuri, 1 ? ; 

 SiKHiM (Dudgeon), 1 5 ; Madras, Gooty (Camphell), 1 $ , Nilgiris 

 (Hampson), 1 c? , 2 $ ; Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole), 1 J, Trincomali 

 (Yerhury), 1 $ ; Burma, Rangoon (Scott), 1 5; Yunnan (Hohson), 



1 5 ; Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 5 5 ^- Australia, 

 Sherlock R. (Clements), 1 $ ; N. S. Walks, Broken Hill (Lower), 



2 c?, 1 $ ; Hawaii, Honolulu (Blackburn), 1 c? type vmo^m, Kona 

 (PerJcins), 1 $ , Lahana (PerJdns), 1 cT • ^'^P- 26-34 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 113; Barrett. Lap. Brit. v. p. 273, pi. 220 f. 1. 



Pinkish brown, dots blackish ; spiracular line pale ochrcous, 

 dark-edged above. Food-plants : Plantago and low growing 

 herbs. 8-9. In Egypt destructive to Lucerne and Cotton. 



Genus NEOLAPHYGMA, nov. 



Type, iV. leuco2}laga. 



Proboscio fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly I'eacliing to 

 middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenntE of female ciliated ; tliorax clothed with 

 hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with 

 paired crests formed of long hair and spatulate scales ; build slender ; tibiae 

 fringed with scales, the tarsi with tufts of scales on 1st joint; abdomen long 

 and slender, without crests. Fore wing very narrow, the margins subparallel, 

 the apex produced to a slight point, the termen slightly excised below it then 

 strongly excurved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 and 10 stalked, 9 absent, 7 and 10 

 almost from a point ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 6 

 obsolescent from jnst below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing; with the cell to middle. 



