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apex rounded, tlie termen evenly curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; ii 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only. 



4139. Stygiathetis mus. 



Badinacra mus, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 77, pi. 145. f. 9 (1891) ; id. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 268. 



Head and thorax brown, the scales tipped with white ; antennae 

 ringed with white at base ; palpi, pectus, and legs fuscous mixed 

 with some grey, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish 

 brown. Pore wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by black points below costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line blackish, slightly angled outwards below costa, 

 then almost erect ; orbicular absent ; reniform slightly defined by 

 white points ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to 

 median nervure ; postmedial line blackish produced to slight streaks 

 on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish 



Fig. I'lA.—Stygiathctis mus, (^ . \. 



slightly defined by brown on inner side and somewhat excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of slight black 

 points ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; 

 cilia with oehreous line at base followed by a brown line and the tips 

 grey ; the underside white thickly irrorated with brown, a black 

 discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, indistinct diffused sub- 

 terminal line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hah. Madras, Nilgiri plateau (Hampson), 1 c?, 3 5 type. Exj), 

 30 millim. 



Genus CEAMBODES. 



Type. 



Crambodes, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 152 (1852) talidiformis. 



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

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 short; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennte of male bipectinate with 

 very short fasciculate branches, of female minutely serrate ; thorax clothed 

 with scales and hair mixed, the prothoras with small spreading crest, tlie 

 mesothorax with slight paired crests, the metathorax with spreading crest ; 



