494 NOCTUID^. 



white. Fore wing yellow-green ; the costal edge white with some 

 yellow below it towards base, the inner margin yellow ; a reddish 

 discoidal spot usually with white centre ; cilia white with some 

 pink at apex. Hind wing pure white. 



Bah. W. China, Pa-tsu-fong, 2 $ type. Exp. 38 mlllim. 



B. Fore wing of male with the apes strongly produced and acute, the 

 termcn almost straiglit. 



6851. Tyana falcata. 



Hylophila falcata., Wlk. xxxv. 1772 (1866) ; Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 16, 

 pi. 105. f. 9 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 131 ; Kirby, Oat. Lep. Het. p. 283. 

 Ti/mia piistulifera, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1899, p. 203 (nee Wlk.). 

 Tyana acypera, HmiDsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 601 (1905), S . 

 Tyana litemta, Wilemau, Entom. 1910, p. 345. 



Head and thorax yellow-green ; palpi white, suffused with pink 

 towards tips ; frons white with pink bar above; antennae brown, 

 ringed with pink and white towards base ; pectus and legs white, 

 some pink below the shoulders, the fore tibise and tarsi and the 

 extremities of mid femora suffused with pink ; abdomen Avhite. 

 Fore wing yellow-green; the costal edge brown and white ; brown 



Yig.im.— Tyana falcata, S- \- 



spots at angles of cell and sometimes a point at origin of vein 2 

 with another below it in submedian fold ; the termen and cilia 

 yellowish. Hind wing white. 



Ab. 1. Back of head and base of tegulse with some yellow; fore 

 wing with the costa yellowish white. 



Ab. 2. literata. Fore wing with sinuous brown discoidal bar. — 

 Formosa. 



Hah. W. China, Omei-shan, 1 S type aci/pera; Formosa, 

 Daitozan, 8,500', type f $ literata in Coll. Wilenian ; Sikhim 

 (Atkinson, Russell, Lidderdale, Moller), 3 c? , 6 5 type. E.rp. 

 32-36 millim. 



Sect. II. Hind wing of male with tuft of long red hair on inner margin on 

 underside; fore wing with the termen straight. 



6852. Tyana pustulifera. 



Earias pustulifera, Wlk. xxxv. 1773 (1866); Butl. 111. Het. B.M". vi. p. 16, 

 pi. 105. f. 7;* Jrlmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 131; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 283. 

 Tyana flatoidcs, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 285 (1887) ; Kirby, Gat. Lep. Het. 

 *p. 283. 



