350 noctuid^t;. 



' 6660. Gadirtha poliochroa, n. sp. (Plate CLXXXITI. fig. 9.) 



5 • Head and thorax gre}', the teguloe and patagia with patches 

 of purple-brown; fore tibiae with brown spots, the tarsi banded 

 with brown; abdomen whitish, dorsally safFused with brown, the 

 crests black at tips. Fore wing grej—white mostly suffused with 

 purple-brown leaving the inner area and an apical j)atch grey- 

 white; two subbasal dark striae from costa ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, minutely Avaved, an angled white mark before 

 it from costa and a blackish spot defined by whitish in the cell ; 

 a bar-shaped tuft of raised scales in middle of cell ; a large, round 

 discoidal annulus defined by brown and with tuft of brown scales 

 in centre; postmedial line brown, bent outwards below costa, and 

 below vein 2 with a series of three steps to inner margin near 

 antemedial line, the steps marked by bars of raised scales ; 

 subtcrminal line whitish, dentate, with tufts of raised . rufous 

 scales on its inner side except towards costa; a terminal series 

 of rufous lunules formed of raised scales. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with brown, the terminal area darker; cilia brownish 

 white ; the underside whitish with the costal and terminal areas 

 suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. Thorax with hardly a trace of purple-brown; fore wing 

 grey-white with a j^iatch of purple-brown suffusion on antemedial 

 costal area. 



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Genus CASANDRIA. \, 



Type. 



Casandria, Wlk. xi. 60fi (18.^7) emitiens. 



Motya, Wlk. xix. 1021 (1859) ahseuzalis. 



Lussn, Grote, Can. Ent. xv. p. 127 (1883) ahseuzalis. 



Leianophera, Moschl. Abb. Senok. Ges. svi. p. l;36 (1900) ... transfossa. 



CoUcmena, Moscbl. Abb. Senek. Ges. xvi. p. 145 (1900) elota. 



Flcitrasympiesa, Moscbl. Abb. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 146 (1900) ahseuzalis. 



Neosticioptera, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) v. p. 619 (1900) nigropunc-fa. 



Proboscis fnlly developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to about 

 vertex of bead and slightly fringed with bair above towards extremity, the 

 3rd sbort, porrect ; frons smootb ; eyes large, round; antenna3 of male 

 typically ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; fore tibia3 fringed with long hair, the mid tibire moderately fringed 

 with hair, the bind tibiae smootbly scaled; abdomen with slight crests on 

 medial segments, slight lateral tufts of scales and the anal tuft large in male. 

 Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the ternien evenly 

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

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow areole ; 

 11 from cell; the retinacidum a corneous bar curled round the frenulum. 

 Hind wing wilb vein 3 from just before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle or 

 shortly stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to 

 middle. 



