252 NOCTUID^. 



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

 lower angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 to middle. 



Sect. I. {Nanaguna.) Antennae of male with ridge of hair on shaft above towards 

 base ; the fore tibiae and tarsal joints tufted with hair ; abdomen with lateral 

 tufts of long hair from near base and extremity ; hind wing with the costa 

 strongly lobed and fringed with hair, a large tuft of hair below the costa 

 on upperside and a tuft of long hair in upper part of cell. 



6523. Nanaguna "breviuscula. 



Nanaquna hreviuscula, Wlk. xxvii. 85 (1863). 



Ciettharra valida, Wlk. xxvii. 101 (1863); Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. 



p. 108, pi. 163. f. 12 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 384. 

 Bagistana rudis, Wlk. xxxiii. 1093 (1865). 

 ThrypAcodes xyloglypta, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc.N.S. W. (2) iv. p. 1073 (1890) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 916. 

 Symiiha nigridisca, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 87, pi. 146. f. 11 



(1891). 

 Ciettharra floccijera, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 386 (1894). 



c? . Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale hrown ; abdomen 

 white dorsally tinged with ochreous and with grey at extremity, 

 the anal segment deep black ventrally. Fore wing whitish tinged 

 with ochreous and irrorated with red-brown, a dark brown patch 

 on inner area from postmedial line to termen ; an oblique blackish 



Fig. 90. — Nanaguna breviusctda, (^ . \. 



subbasal band from costa to submedian fold defined on outer side 

 by whitish ; antemedial line whitish defined on outer side by 

 blackish, angled outwards below costa and at submedian fold ; 

 a faint blackish discoidal point ; postmedial line whitish defined on 

 inner side by minute black streaks on veins 6 to 2, very oblique 

 from costa to Vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; some 

 black points on costa towards apex and faint traces of a minutely 

 dentate whitish subterminal line ; the terminal area with a faint 

 greenish tinge except towards tornus ; cilia red and dark brown 

 towards tornus. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with brown 

 except towards tornus, the tuft of hair below costa purplish red, 

 the tuft in cell pale fuscous. 



$ . Abdomen with the anal segment not black below. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more variegated with white and brown, the 

 inner medial area white irrorated with black. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing more uniform ochreous suffused with brown, 

 and without the dark patch on terminal part of inner area. 



