520 noctuid.t;. 



Geuus AITETA. 



Type. 



Aiteta, Wlk. ix. 131 (1850) muscidlna. 



Capotcna, Wlk. xi. 714 (IS."")?) aprifonnis. 



Brada,W\]i..\Y. 16(i5 (1858) truncata. 



Chaladra, Wlk. xxxii. 639 (18fi5) musculina. 



Phanaca, Wlk. xxxiii. 856 (1865) damnipennis, 



Thyrsoscdis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 473 iridias. 



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

 vertex of head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd short, porreot ; iVons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round; antennas of male with fascicukite cilia; thorax clothed 

 with hair and hiiir-like scales and without crests ; mid and liind tibite of male 

 fi'inged with long hair, also the 1st joint of hind tarsus and the ianer spurs; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, in male very long wiih lateral 

 fringes of downturned hair. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, 

 the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near ancrle 

 of cell ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long areola ; 6 from the areola ; 

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

 angle of cell or in male sometimes shortly stalked, with 3, 4 ; 6, 7 i'rom upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with more or less orange-red. 



a. Fore vving black-brown beyond an oblique line from 



middle of costa to inner margin before middle gamma. 



h. Fore wing with the apical ai-ea black-brown from 



middle of costa to termen above tornus veluia. 



c. Fore wing with triangular black-brown postmedial 



patch on costa cscalerai. 



d. Foi-e wing without black-brown. 

 a?-. Hind wing wholly orange-red. 



«2. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from 



costa beyond middle to termen at vein 2 paraleila. 



//-. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below 



vein 4 to inner margin before tornus meterythra. 



U. Hind wing yellowLsh white, the terminal area 



tinged with red thermistiH. 



B. Hind wing uniform orange-yellow costipla.ga. 



C. Hind wing without red or yellow. 



a. Fore wing with oblique dark brown conical patch from 

 middle of costa to submedian fold defined by whitish 

 lir.es. 

 ffi. Fore wing with the dark patch rounded below, its 



outer edge indented hampsoni. 



b^. Fore wing wilh the dark patch pointed below, its 



outer edge excurved trigoniphora. 



h. Fore wing without dark conical patch. 



a)-. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines and a 



streak in submedian fold pure wh ite ><cripta. 



hK Fore wing without white lines and streak. 



rt2. Fore wing with the lines defined by wliitish 

 suffusion ; underside of both wings with the 



costal areas fulvous yellow suhjlava. 



Jr. Fore wing with the lines not defined by whitish 



suffusion ; underside of both wings with the 



costal areas not yellow. 



«^. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique and 



straight from costa to vein 3 towards termen. 



«*. Fore wing with the costal edge white. 



a^. Fore wing purplish grey-brown alhicosfa. 



Ifi. Fore wing rufous suffused with purplish... iridias. 

 b*. Fore wing with the costal edge not white ... elaina. 



