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NOCTUID.'E. 



e>pecia]]y on terminal area ; a fine waved brown terminal line ; 

 cilia ochreous white with a few brown scales; the underside 

 ochreous white slightlj^ irrorated with brown, the costal area 

 tinged wath red before apes, a slight discoidal stigma and terminal 

 series of points. 



Hah. Eechuanaland, I^'Gami (Lugard), 1 5 type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus THYATIRODES, nov. 



Type, T. godahna. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of fi'ons aud moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 moderate, porrect ; frons with lai'ge rounded promirence with short elliptical 

 corneous process at middle with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round; antennae of male laminate and almost simple; thorax 

 clothed wit ii scales and hair mixed and with broad dorsal ridge of erect scales; 

 tibite moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base 

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

 curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 Irom near angle of cell; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



3894. Thyatirodes godalma. 



Thya.tira godalma, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 152 (1904). 



S . Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale rufous and on 

 metathorax with greyish fuscous ; palpi and sides of frons dark 

 brown ; pectus aud legs rufous, the throat dark brown, the tarsi 

 dark brown with pale rings ; abdomen rufous, the extremity and 

 ventral surface tinged with dark brown. Pore wing whitish ; the 

 basal area dark brown, its outer edge nearly erect from costa to 

 vein 1, tlien excurved; a large diffused rounded red-brown patch 



on medial area from cell to above inner margin, conjoined to another 

 beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3 ; a small dark spot on middle 

 of costa ; the outer edge of the pale medial area excurved from 

 costa to vein 3 near termen, then incurved ; the terminal area 

 red-brown with some whitish points on costa, an oblique whitish 

 subterminal line from costa to vein 6 and waved line from vein 3 

 to inner margin ; a terminal series of small blackish lunules 

 defined on inner side by a waved whitish line ; cilia blackish with 

 whitish lines at base and middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with 



