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NOCTUIDJE. 



met at vein 5 by a slight dark shade from termen below apex ; the 

 veins and interspaces of terminal area with slight dark streaks, a 

 stronger streak above middle of vein 5, not reaching termen ; cilia 

 intersected by dark streaks. Hind wing orange-yellow with broad 

 black terminal band slightly interrupted at submedian fold ; cilia 

 white intersected with black from below apex to vein 2. Underside 

 white ; fore wing with oblique fuscous band from upper angle of 

 cell to above inner margin and fuscous terminal band narrowing to 

 tornus and suffused with grey at costa and termen ; hind wing with 

 the inner area tinged with yellow, the terminal band partially 

 interrupted at submedian fold and with some white on it at apex. 



Hah. TujS^is, Zarcine, type f in Coll. D. Lucas. Exp. 35 

 millim. 



Genus CEROCALA. 

 Ccrocala, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 171 (1840) 



Type. 

 scajnilosa. 



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

 to well above vertex of bead and moderately scaled, the 3rd very long and 

 somevs^hat dilated at extremity ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibite smoothly 

 scaled, all the tibia? strongly spined, the fore tibias short and with claw-like 

 spines at extremity ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing 

 Willi the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third 

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

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



Sect. I. Antennaj bipectinate in both sexes. 



8074. Cerocala caelata. 



Cerocala ccelata, Karsch, Eut. Nachr. xxii. p. 235 (1898). 



Head whitish, the palj)i, frons, and branches of antennae brown ; 

 thorax dark brown, the tegulse whitish except at sides ; pectus and 



Fig. 65. — Cerocala coilaia, 5 • 



legs white and fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown with segmental Avhite lines. Fore wing pui'ijlish grey 



