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NOCTUID^. 



base ; fore femora black above ; tarsi fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 yellow tinged with flesli-colovir ; a small fuscous black triangular 

 spot on costa above end of cell connected with a curved deep black 

 discoidal striga somewhat dilated above ; an oblique fuscous black 

 apical spot. Hind wing yellow faintly tinged with fiery red except 

 on costal area ; a small fuscous patch at apex. 



$ . Fore wing very faintly striated with brown. 



Hah. Madras {Watson), 1 6 ; Ceylon, 1 $ type tetraspila, 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus GONODONTODES, nov. 



Type, G. dispar. 



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

 of liead and Dioclerately scaled, the 3rd rather long; frons smooth, with tuft of 

 hair above; eyes large, round ; antenn;© of male pectinate with rather long 

 branches, the apex ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and 

 without crests ; tibite moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibiae not spined, 

 the hind tibias spined ; abdomen dorsally clotlied with woolly hair at base but 

 without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex not produced, the termen 

 not crenidate ; veins 3 and 6 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 somewhat excurved at middle ; the cell about one-third length 

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

 0, 7 from ujiper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at vein 5. 



7930. Gonodontodes chionosticta, n. sp. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown ; antennae with the basal joint 

 white on outer side ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey-brown ; abdomen 

 grey-brown dorsally tinged with red-brown. Fore Aving bright 



Fig. 41. — Gonodontodes chionosticta, (^ . \. 



glossy red-brown, in-orated with a few white scales ; a small silvery 

 white spot at base ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, brown. 



