288 



NOCTTJIDiE. 



smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly cni-yed, 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 cell about half the 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, 



A. Fore wing with dark ante- and postmedial lines henenotafa. 



B. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial lines infrequens. 



8094. Hypoglaucitis benenotata. 



p. 313; Hmpsn. Moths Lid. 

 17 (1894). 



Pandesma benenotata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, 



ii. p. 480 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 245. 

 Hypoglaucitis mof^es, Stand. Iris, vii, p. 284, pi. 9. f. 



c? . Head and thorax grey- white tinged with brown ; pectus and 

 legs white ; the palpi and fore legs irrorated w^ith brown ; abdomen 

 white dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with 

 brown and slightly irrorated with blackish ; an oblique blackish 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish, oblique to subcostal nervure then erect and slightly 



Fig. 71. — Hypoglaucitis benenotata, S • \- 



sinuous, forming black spots at costa and in and below the cell ; 

 reniform defined by rather diffused black, small and narrow ; post- 

 medial line diffused, blackish, incurved at discal fold, oblique from 

 vein 4 to submedian fold where it forms a small spot, a slight dark 

 shade beyond it except towards costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on inner side by a dark shade and by small dentate black 

 marks above and below vein 6, slightly excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and incurved at discal fold, the area beyond it more 

 strongly tinged with brown and with a slight oblique blackish 

 mark from apex ; a slight waved dark terminal line. Hind wing 

 white tinged with reddish brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; cilia white. Underside of both wings white, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown except towards tornus. 



5 . Fore wing with the black markings on the lines less 

 distinct. 



Rah. Stria, 1 § ; Algeria, C. Sahara, S. Ouedmya {Hartert^ ; 

 Egypt, Suez {Meade - Waldo), 1 6 ; Aden, Sheik Othman 

 {Nitrse), 1 c? ; Punjab, Rawal Pindi {Yerhury'), 1 S type. 

 :Exp. 30-32 millim. 



