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NOCTUID^. 



defined by black and with diffused blackish, fascia from it to post- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black, the 

 former small, elongate elliptical, and with dark centre, the latter 

 large, rather quadrate, its outer edge indented and its centre slightly 

 denned by fuscous ; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then minutely dentate ; postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, indistinctly double towards costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then ob- 

 ]iquel_7 incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish, defined on inner side by small wedge-shaped black 

 marks at middle, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of minute black lunules ; cilia 

 whitish with series of black lunules at tips. Hind wing pale uni- 

 formly suffused with fuscous brown, the veins and a terminal line 

 darker; cilia whitish at base, blackish at tips; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot, diffused 

 curved postmedial line, and traces of subterminal band on inner 

 half. 



Hah. U.S.A., Illinois, 2 S type. Exp. 46-50 millim. 



Sect. II. Ancenuse of male ciliated. 



2480. Pachypolia himalayensis, n. sp. • 



(5 . Head and tegulte ochreous tinged with rufous ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish; antennao blackish; tegulte with black medial 

 line ; thorax deep rufous, the dorsal crest '^tipped with ochreous : 

 pectus clothed with purplish-pink and brown hairs, the tarsi ringed 

 black and pinkish ochreous ; abdomen fuscous mixed with rufous 

 and with slight greyish segmental lines, the anal tuft pale rufous. 

 Fore- wing ochreous almost wholly suffused with purplish red- 

 brown, the terminal area with fuscous, the veins with slight dark 



Fig. 101. — Pachypolia himalayensis, (^ . \. 



streaks ; subbasal line represented by two slight striae from costa ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with ochreous, angled outwards 

 below costa, then excurved to vein 1 where it is slightly angled 

 inwards ; claviform large, defined by black ; orbicular with brown 

 centre and ochreous annulus defined by black, oblique elliptical ; 

 reniform with fuscous centre and ochreous annulus defined by black 

 on inner side only, somewhat constricted at middle and with its 

 lower extremity dentate : a slight medial line ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below costa, then 



