340 NOCTUIDiR. 



thorax with slight crest ; fore tibiaj rerj broadly fringed on each side with 

 hair, the mid and hind tibice moderately fringed, tlie fore and mid tarsi 

 with slight tufts of scales at the joints ; abdomen with dorsal series of hairy 

 crests. Fore wing witli the apex rounded, the termen typically evenly 

 ciirTed, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from just 

 above angle; (i, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle. 



Sect, I. Antennae of male with fafscicles of extremely long cilia. 



6647. Gadirtha trichocera, n, sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax brownish ochreous with some black scales ; 

 abdomen brownish grej- mixed with fuscous and with dorsal series 

 of slight triangular marks defined by black striee. Fore wing 

 brownish ochreous irrorated with black and suffused in parts with 

 blue-green ; subbasal line represented by slight oblique double 

 black striae from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; 

 a tuft of black scales in middle of cell ; reniform round, defined by 

 black and with tuft of black scales in centre ; a slight oblique 

 minutely waved medial line from costa to discal fold, a round black 

 spot beyond lower angle of cell, an oblique elliptical spot on base of 

 vein 2 and a round spot above vein 1 just beyond the antemedial 

 line ; postmedial line black, double and oblique from costa to discal 

 fold, then single, inwardly oblique, dentate, and angled inwards at 



Fig. 124. — GacUrtJia trichocera., (^ . \. 



submedian fold, the veins beyond it streaked with black on apical 

 area; subterminalline white, incurved and with some white suffusion 

 bejfond it from costa to vein 6, then indistinct, minutely waved 

 and with slight black streaks beyond it on the veins ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly 

 suffused with fuscous with traces of the postmedial line on its 

 inner edge and double black bar filled in with white at inner 

 margin ; cilia white tinged with brown at base ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged with brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule. 



$ . Head and thorax tinged with green > fore wing with the 

 basal costal area suffused with green ; the antemedial area from 



