646 NOCTUID^. 



legs irrorated with brown ; abdomen wliito dorsally suffused with 

 browu. Fore wing yellow sutt'used in parts with red-brown 

 especially on medial area and sparsely irrorated with black, the 

 inner half of ante- and postmedial areas greyish ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, brownish, obhquely excurved ; postmedial line brownish, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, obliquely incurved below vein 4 ; an 

 indistinct brownish subterminal line with slight white and black 

 marks on its outer edge, excurved below vein 7 and at middle. 

 Hind wing semihyaline, whitish, the veins of terminal area and 

 the tormen tinged with yellow-brown. 



Hah. JiECHUANALAND, L, N'Gami {F. Lugard), 1 cJ , 1 $ • Exjp. 

 cJ 24, $ 28 miilim. Type t in Mus. Stockholm. 



Genus PTEROGONIA. 



lype. 



Pierogonia, Swinb. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 152 efiscuj.a/is. 



Cras'pedagoniu, Hmpsn. 111. Het. E.M. ix. p. 117 (1893) nubes. 



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

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and moderately scaled ; frons 

 smooth with large pointed tuft of hair; eyes large, round ; antennte of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with slight ridge-like 

 dorsal crest ; tibias moderately iringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced 

 and acute ; the termen typically slightly creuulate to vein 3, then obliquely 

 curved, the inner margin highly arched ; the cell broad at extremity ; veins 3 

 and b fi'om near angle of cell; the discocellulars straight; vein 6 from angle 

 of cell; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 I'roui cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 6 fully developed from just 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to towards 

 extremity. 



Sect. I. {Craspedagonia.) Fore wing with the termen strongly excised below 

 apex, sligiitly angled at vein 6 and obtusely at vein 3, the cilia crenulate. 



7099. Pterogonia nubes. 



Craspedagonia ntibes, Hmpsn. 111. Ilet. E.M. ix. p. 117, pL 166. f. 3 

 (1893) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 363. 



5 . Head dark brown mixed with grey ; thorax with the dorsum 

 dark brown mixed with grey, the sides dull reddish brown ; pectus 



and legs white mixed with some brown, the fore legs brown, the 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing dull reddish brown, the medial part of 



