800 NOCTUIDiE, 



vertex of head with black spots ; antennse brown ; tegul^ with 

 black line at base, the tegulse at tips, patagia and metathorax 

 with some black mixed ; fore tibiae and the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white; abdomen white tinged with brown, the crests tipped 

 with black. Fore wing brown suffused with purple-grey and with 

 white markings defined by black ; a white fascia below base of cell 

 connected with costa by two converging subbasal bands enclosing 

 a triangular space ; a white antemedial band obliquely curved from 

 costa to vein 1, then bent outwards to inner margin, some white 

 suffusion tinged with blue-green beyond it ; a white fascia on 

 terminal part of median nervure continued to beyond the post- 

 medial band where it sometimes encloses a dark spot ; an angled 

 white mark in end of cell connected with the oblique discoidal 

 lunule ; an oblique white band from below middle of cell to inner 

 margin, its upper extremity connected by a streak with the post- 

 medial band which is dilated below costa, oblique to beyond lower 

 angle of cell and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a subterminal 

 series of slight black marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a white spot on 

 termen in submedian interspace. Hind wing white, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; 

 cilia white with a brownish line through them ; the underside 

 with the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal point and maculate postmedial line excurved to 

 vein 3, then incurved. 



Hah. Japak, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 2 type ; "W. China, Shen-se, 

 Sinling (Mem), 1 $ . Exjy. 34-36 millim. 



Genus PTYOPTEROTA. „ 



Type. 



Ttycypterota, Hrapsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 75 (1894J obscura. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and without distinct crests; tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the 

 spurs long ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only, the elaspers of male 

 elongate. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell ; 

 male with a fringe of long scales on underside on subcostal nervure from base 

 to end of cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent ; 6, 

 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only, 



*5848 a. Ptyopterota obscura. 



Ptyo2:iterota ohscura, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 75 (1894). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish ochreous, the genital 

 tuft whitish. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; a dark point at 

 base; antemedial line blackish, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure and with blackish spot before it above inner margin ; a 



