312 NOCTUID^. 



Genus HEXAMITOPTERA. 



Foeciloptera, Pag. J.B. Nass. Ver. xxxviii. p. 35 (1885), nee Type. 



Pmcilloptera, Germ. Hem. 1818 lavinda. 



Hexamitoptefa, Pag. J.B. Nass. Ver. xxxviii. p. 180 (1885) ... lavinda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the second joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and broadly sealed in front ; the 3rd long and moderately 

 scaled in front ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with long hair mixed with scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; all the tibise spined, the 

 fore tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibise 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the costa nearly straight towards apex which -is produced and acute, the 

 terlnen evenly 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 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen strongly angled at vein 4 ; 

 the cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4, from angle of cell ; 5 fully 

 developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



7432, Hexamitoptera lavinda. 



Faciloptera lawinda, Pag. J.B. Nass. Verb, xxxviii. p. 35, pi. ii. f. 5 



(1885). 



Head and tegulse rufous ; palpi fulvous yellow ; antennae dark 

 brown ; thorax greenish grey mixed with brownish ; pectus and 

 legs fulvous yellow, the tarsi brownish with pale rings; abdomen, 

 yellow, the base of dorsum greenish grey irrorated with black, 

 lateral and sublateral black points except at extremity. Pore 

 wing whitish suffused with greenish blue, the costal area to 

 postmedial line, the cell and the inner area obliquely from beyond 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin near base thickly irrorated with 

 brownish ; a faint curved antemedial line ; a slight pale point in 

 middle of cell and elliptical brown discoidal spot defined by white 

 with a yellowish streak beyond it ; medial line represented by an 

 oblique brown striga from costa and two slight striae at discal fold ; 

 an oblique brown line from apex to middle of inner margin, rather 

 diffused on outer side and crossed by the slight waved postmedial 

 line defined on outer side by bluish white, excurved from costa to 

 below vein 7 and oblique beyond the line from apex ; a faint pale 

 subterminal line bent outwards and waved on inner side above the 

 apical line and ending at tornus ; a series of slight brown and 

 whitish lunules before termen ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing- 

 whitish suffused with greenish blue, the inner margin yellow ; 

 a dark discoidal point ; an oblique double dark antemedial line 

 with rufous patch beyond it beyond the cell and followed by the 

 dark medial line which is oblique to discal fold, then incurved and 

 reduced to points, a slight rufous mark beyond it in discal fold ; a 

 brown patch on costa before the faint waved subterminal line ; the 

 terminal area suffused with brownish except towards apex ; a series 

 of minute black lunules before termen from apex to the angle at 



