650 NOCTUID^. 



point at costa, then faint, excurved beyond the cell and oblique to 

 inner margin ; traces of a pale subterminal line excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with brown, the cilia with a fine pale line at 

 base ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the 

 costa tinged with ochreous. 



Hah. Madras, Gooty {Oamphell), 1 § type. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus THYATIEINA, nov. 



Type, T. achatina. 



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

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with rounded 

 prominence produced to a beak-like point at extremity, a corneous plale below 

 it; eyes large, round ; antenuaj laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with decumbent 

 crest ; tibiiB moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apes rounded, the ternien evenly curved and not crenulate, 

 the inner margin lobed before middle ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 H 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 nearly fuPy 

 developed from below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- 

 toniDsing with the cell near base only. 



5986. Thyatirina achatina. 



Thyatira achatina, Weym. Berl. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 90, pi. 8. f. 3 (1896). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous 

 and irrorated with a few dark brown scales, the head somewhat 

 darker; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous, the 

 fore tibiae and tarsi brown, the latter slightly ringed with white. 

 Eore wing ochreous suffused with rufous and irrorated with a few 

 dark scales ; the basal area with pale chocolate-brown patch in and 

 below eel], whitish towards inner margin ; antemedial line whitish 



Fig. 182. — Thyatirina achatina, cJ. \. 



defined by dark brown on outer side, very strongly excurved, 

 obsolescent and angled outwards above inner margin ; medial area 

 chocolate red-brown becoming whitish with prominent dark irro- 

 ration towards inner margin ; a faint sinuous dark medial line ; 

 postmedial line arising from middle of costa, white defined on inner 

 side by dark brown, incurved and slightly sinuous from costa to 

 submedian fold where it is angled outwards, then black and in- 

 curved, a large rounded olive-brown patch beyond it between 



