108 NOCTUIDJE. 



subbasal line black, waved, interrupted, defined on inner side by 

 white towards costa ; antcmcsdial line double, black filled in with 

 white towards costa, the black on inner side expanding on costa to 

 subbasal line ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform with black 

 bar in middle and whitish annulua defined by black ; medial line 

 forming a diffused black patch on co'sta, dentate below the cell ; 

 postmedial line double, black filled in with white towards costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate, oblique below 

 vein 4, some black suffusion beyond it; postmedial area with some 

 white points on costa and a strongly dentate black line; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, defined on inner side by wedge-shaped black 

 marks and on outer slightly by black, waved ; a series of small black 

 lunules on apical half of termen, the inner half of terminal area 

 almost wholly black ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing 

 grey, the inner half suffused Avith black ; a minutely waved white 

 postmedial line from discal fold to inner margin with black spots 

 before and beyond it beloAv vein 2 ; a waved white subterminal 

 line from vein 7 to tornus, double between veins 4 and 2; cilia 

 with series of small white spots at base; the underside white 

 thickly irrorated with black, the terminal area suffused with black 

 below vein 5, a black discoidal spot and medial line, postmedial 

 line black defined on outer side by white, minutely waved, sub- 

 terminal line white minutely waved, forming a bar at tornus. 



Hah. Perak, Goping (/uiusi^t-r), 1 $ type; EoejSTEo, 2 2- Exp. 

 44-46 millim. 



Genus AON. „ 



Type. 



Aon, Neum. Ent. News, Philad. iii. p. 258 (f893) nootulfurmls. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi obliquely upturned, tlie 2ucl joint reaching about to 

 Tevtex of head and moderately fringed with hair, the third porrect ; frons 

 smooth, with large tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennas of male bipectinate 

 with long branches to apex; prothorax without crests, metathorax with spread- 

 ing crest ; tibiiB modei'ately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rougti hair 

 at base but without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rectangular, 

 the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle 

 of cell; (> from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed 

 from just above angle of cell ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



6326. Aon noctuiformis. 



Aon noctmforviis, Neum. Eut. News, Philad. iii. p. 258 (1893) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Ain. p. 195. 



S . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous, the thorax with 

 black bands behind the tegulse and at extremity of metathorax ; 

 pectus and legs with brown mixed, the tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen browish grey irrorated with blackish, the hair at 

 base brown. Fore wing grey striated with brown and irrorated 

 with a few large black scales, the cell and discal fold towards 

 termen white, tho terminal area below the cell tinged with rufous, 



