35G NOCTUIDiE. 



8167. Trisuloides c-album. (Plate CCXXXIII. fig. 14.) 



Tamhana c-allmm, Leecb, Trans. Ent. Son. 1900, p. 525. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white and some 

 red-brown ; peetiis whitish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with M^hite. Fore wing bronze-brown suffused with 

 purple-grey ; subbasal line blackish, crossed by a short black streak 

 in the cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 blackish, sinuous, angled outwards at submedian fold and incurved at 

 vein 1 ; orbicular minute, defined by black ; renif orm elliptical, defined 

 by black, with white annulus above and on inner side and yellow 

 streak from middle of outer edge ; medial line indistinct, blackish, 

 sinuous, a blackish patch beyond it below submedian fold ; post- 

 medial line double, blackish filled in with white and with some 

 white before it towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4 and excurved at 

 vein 1 ; subterminal line blackish, somewhat dentate, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules slightly defined on inner side by whitish. Hind wing 

 dark brown ; a broad orange medial band from costa to vein 1, 

 its inner edge irregular, its outer angled at vein 4 ; a slight 

 yellowish line before termen ; cilia chequered with white to 

 vein 2, then with whitish tips. Underside of fore wing with the 

 basal half yellow, a yellow streak beyond the cell and some 

 yellowish above it on costa ; hind wing yellow, the veins streaked 

 with white, a blackish discoidal spot, the costal area white irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area brown mixed with whitish, its inner 

 edge waved. 



Hah. W. China, Chang-yang (Fratt), 8 $ type. Uxj). 

 50 millim. 



Genus EL.EODSS, nov. 



ft 



Type. E. hrevicornis. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely nptiirnecl, the 2ncl joint bardly 

 r'^^aching to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short, 

 porreet ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male 

 typically serrate and fasciculate; thorax clotlied with hair and hair-like scales 

 and without crests ; tibia; fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series 

 of hairy crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenuiate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anatomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 

 from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anatomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with short fasciculate branches. 



A. Fore wing yellow tinged with green ; hind wing of male 



white viresccns. 



B. Fore wing brownish grey suffused in parts with olive-green ; 



hind wing greyish tinged with fuscous browu acaiharta. 



