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line; cilia pale with a blackish line through them. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with reddish brown ; traces of a sinuous post- 

 medial line ; a slight brown mark on veiTi 2 towards termen and 

 some slight dentate brown marks on medial part of termen ; cilia 

 brown with a pale line at base ; the underside white, with medial 

 brown mark on costa and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Pri/er), 2 5 type. JEa^y. 58 millim. 



Genus PACHYPOLIA. 



Type. 



Pachi/jMlia, Gi-ote, 6th Rep. Peab. Acad. Sei. p. 27 (1874) atricornis. 



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

 with hair in front, the 3rd short ; Irons smooth; eyes large, rounded ; antennae 

 of male typically bipeetinated with rather long branches, the apex simple ; 

 head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the thorax with divided dorsal 

 ridge-like crest ; pectus and legs clothed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crest on basal segments. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen obliquely 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 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 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- 

 cell ulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate with rather long branches, the apex 

 simple. 



2479. Pachypolia atricornis. 



Fachypolia atricornis, Grote, 6th Rep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 27(1874); id. 

 List Noctuidc% pi. f. 8 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 164. 



. (S . Head and thorax clothed with grey, brown, and black scales ; 

 frons with black bar; tegulae with black medial line and dark 

 brown tips ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi with 

 whitish rings; abdomen grey irrorated with black and tinged 



Fig. 100. — Pachf/jJolia atricornis, (^ . }. 



with reddish brown. Fore wing grey suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with black, the medial area rather dark except basal part 

 of inner area ; a small tuft of white and black scales at base ; a slight 

 black streak below base of cell defined by white above ; subbasal 

 line represented by double curved black striae from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with grey, waved, somewhat oblique 

 and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform moderate, 



