SA DABSA . X YCT i:0 r,A . 



205 



rcfl-l)roAvn exocpt towards costa ; subbasal line indistinct, double, 

 angled outwards below costa and at median nervure ; antemedial 

 line double, highl}- dentate ; claviform and orbicular represented 

 by slight points of raised scales, the reniform defined by slight 



Fig. 01. — Sadarsa fenitis, (^ . i. 



points of raised scales ; an oblique highly dentate medial line from 

 beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, 

 very strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very 

 oblique below vein 4 ; a double highly dentate subtermiiial line ; 

 cilia fuscous aad greyish. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the 

 veins and terminal area brown ; cilia with fine whitish line at base 

 and whitish ti^js ; ihe underside with indistinct curved postnaediai 

 line. 



Ilah. SxKHiM (Moller), 3 c? , 1 $ • E.vp. 42 millim. 



Genus NYCTEOLA. 



Tvpe. 



Kycfeola, TTerr.-Scliiiff. Eur. Scliraett. ii. p. 444 (1853) fa}s,//i\ 



Zeheeha, Kirbj, Cut. Lep. Het. p. 279 (1892) fa/sa lis. 



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

 to vertex of hesid and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and hair 

 mixed and without distinct crests; tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex somewhat produced, the termeu 

 obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 fi from up]ier angle ; 9 from 10 anastomo.sing with 8 to form a minute areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen somewhat excised from below 

 apex to vein 4 ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed from above angle of cell ; 

 0), 7 from u])per angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle; frenulum of 

 female with a tuft of hairs as well as the single bristle. 



6457. Nycteola falsalis. 



Hypena faha-Us, Herr.-Schaff. Deutschl. Ins. i. pi. IfiCi. f. 1 (1830); id. 

 'Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 444, Xvct. ff. 4, 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 279 • 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. SCvJ. 

 Nula darduinuU, Mill. Icones, iii. pp. 172-466, pi. 117. ff. 1, 2 (1869). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with some brown. Fore 

 wing grey-wbite tinged with red-brown, especially on costal half to 

 end of cell ; a blackish patch on costa before the antemedial line, 

 which is white, defined on outer side by black, excurved to below 

 the cell, then incurved and above vein 1 curving round and forming 

 a loop running up to lower angle of cell ; a curved black medial 



