3U 



NOCTU1D.35. 



without crests. Fore wing with the costa higlily arched towards apex wjiicli 

 is produced and acute, the ternien evenly curved, crennlate ; 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 cell about one-third 

 length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Taramina.) Antennae of male pectinate with long uniserrate branches 

 on lower side to two-thirds length, the upper side with fasciculate cilia ; 

 the base of shaft with ridge of thick scales above contorted at extremity ; 

 mid tibite dilated with fold and tuft of long hair ; hind tibijie and the 

 spurs fringed with long hair. 



7433. Entomogramma torsa. 



Entomogranima torsa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 204(1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii. p! 153, pi. 166. f. 2 ; Hiupsn. Moths Lid. ii. p. 533. 

 Knioniogramma squamicornis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 115. f. 3 (1874). 

 Entomogramma vanua, Feid. Reis. Nov. pi. 116. f. 4 (1874). 



cT . Head black-brown slightly tinged with grey ; tegulse rufous ; 

 thorax and abdomen ochreous brown ; hind tibiae and the tarsi 

 fuscous above; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whilisb. 

 I'ore wing ochreous brown suffused with red-brown ; a rufous 



Fig. 53. — Enlomogramma torsa, (^ . \. 



streak in upper part of cell from near base and another from upper 

 angle to apex, beyond the subterminal line defined by dark brown 

 below ; antemedial line slight, brown, excurved below costa, then 

 oblique; an elliptical blackish discoidal annulus ; medial line 

 slight, brown, strongly excurved below costa, then oblique; post- 



