612 NOCTUIDiE. 



1061. Neurois renalba. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 21.) 



Mamestra renalba, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. Ill (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 195. 



5 . Head and thorax black-brown slightly mixed with white ; 

 fore tibiae and tarsi with ochreous bands ; pectus and mid and hind 

 legs mostly grej' ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft rufous, the 

 ventral surface greyish. Fore wing black-brown with a cupreous 

 tinge ; a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold defined with 

 grey on outer side ; the antemedial line oblique, minutely waved 

 and defined by grey on inner side, the area between it and the sub- 

 basal line suifused with black ; orbicular small, defined with black 

 and sometimes with some white in its lower part, placed on a 

 diffused medial line ; reniform defiiied by black, constricted at middle 

 and almost filled in with white or with white points round it ; a 

 waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line dentate and produced to white points at the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line excurved below costa and at middle and incurved in discai and 

 submedian folds, with a series of dentate black marks before it, the 

 area beyond it somewhat paler ; a terminal black line interrupted 

 by white points at the veins ; cilia brown with darker line through 

 them. Hind wing fuscous brown, paler towards costa ; the cilia 

 ochreous with brown line through them. Underside of fore wing 

 with the reniform white ; hind wing white with discoidal spot, 

 curved' postmedial line, and terminal fuscous band. 



Hob. SiKHiM, Kurseong (C SwinJioe), 7000 ft. (Athinson), 4 5 

 type. Eccj). 38 millim. 



Genus EUROIS. 



Type. 



Eurois, Hiibn. Verz. p. 217 (1827) prasina. 



Aplecta, Guen. Ann. Soc. Bnt. Fr. vii. p. 217 (1838) prasina. 



Matuta, Grrote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 116 (1874) tenehrifera. 



Adelphagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 38 (1890) ... stellar'is. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed with 

 hair in front, the 3rd short, porrect, with some hair in front ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 frons smooth ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales and with spreading 

 crests on pro- and metathorax ; fore tibias fringed with hair, mid and hind tibia 

 spined. Fore wing rather broad, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from ujDper 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 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. {Matuta). Antennae of male bipectinate, the apical part serrate. 



A. Fore wing with the lines strongly marked with black at 



costa. 



a. Fore wing dark, strongly irrorated with black youngi. 



h. Fore wdng paler and less irrorated with black elimata. 



B. Fore wing with the lines not marked with black at costa... tenehrifera. 



