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NOCTUID.E. 



brown lunule in centre and fuscous spot in lower part, narrow, its 

 upper and lower extremities strongly produced ; postmedial line 

 represented bj' two red-broAvn striae from cost a, then very indistinct 

 and slightly defined by ochreous on outer side, strongly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, minutely 

 waved, oblique and defined below middle on inner side by a dark 

 brown band, emitting a streak to termen at middle, the area beyond 

 it leaden gre)' just above middle and on inner half; a terminal 

 series of minute black lunules ; cilia chequered ochreous and brown 

 with a brownish line at middle. Hind wing reddish brown ; cilia 

 ochreous; the underside brownish white, a small brown discoidal 

 spot and crenulate postmedial line with the area beyond it suffused 

 with brown. 



2 . Fore wing with the inner and terminal areas not suffused 

 with leaden grey, the area between the ante- and postmedial lines 

 suffused with dark brown to submedian fold in which there is a 

 black streak. 



JJab. Andamans, Port Blair, 1 cJ , 1 2 type. Ex^^. 36 millim. 



Genus PARASTICHTIS. 



lype. 



Parastichtis, Hiibii. Verz. p. 212 (1827) hepaiica. 



Septis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 243 (1827)~ lithoxylm. 



Xylophasia, Steph. III. Erit. Ent., HMUst. ii. p. 174 (1829) lithoxylea. 



Xylena, Hiibn. Tent. ined. {nee Treit.) lithoxylea. 



Probosois fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 middle of frons and rather broadly fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; frous 

 smooth, with tuft of hair ; eyes large, rounded ; antennse of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, a divided dorsal ridge-like crest 

 larger on pro- and metatiiorax ; tibia; fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 !-eries of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather long and narrow, 

 the apex rounded, the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 Irora upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto'iiosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing witii veins 3, 4 fi-oni angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 just below nnddle of discocellnlars ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing whitish with the costal area and cell suffused 



w i th bl ack ii igricostata. 



B. Fore wing not whitish with the costal area and cell 



suffused with black. 

 a. Fore wing with more or less prominent dark streak 

 below base of cell. 

 a\ Fore wing with dark streak in submedian interspace 

 between ante- and postmedial lines. 

 a-. Fore wing with veins 4, 3 defined by whitish 

 streaks extending to lerujen. 

 «'. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous. 



a*. Fore wing with the streak on medial area in 



submedian fold rufous cttcuUiformis. 



¥. Fore wing with the streak on medial area in 



submedian fold b) ack verba scoidea 



