358 NOCTUID.^S. 



suffused with red-brown ; the underside whitish slightly irrorated 

 Avith brown, a rather diftused postmedial line, excurved below 

 costa, then oblique. 



Bah. ? Madagascae, type t 6 in Coll. Mabille. Exp. 18 millim. 



3177. Microplexia discreta. 



AnthophUa discreta, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 368, f. 233 (1891). 



S . Head and tegulse golden green ; palpi mostly brown ; 

 autennse whitish ringed with brown ; tegulse with black band at 

 base ; thorax red-brown with blackish patch on metathorax ; pectus 

 and legs green ; the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown, the basal crest yellowish, the next two 

 })lack and the medial crest red. Pore wing with the basal area 

 rufous ; subbasal line indistinct, double filled in with greenish, 

 curved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line white, 

 obliquely curved, defined on outer side by rufous at costa, then by 

 black-brown ; the terminal half of wing pale purplish grey ; 

 reniform represented by a small round white spot ; postmedial 

 line very indistinct, double, minutely waved, filled in by whitish, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subtcrminal line indistinct, blackish, waved, 

 defined by golden green suffusion on outer side, incurved below 

 costa and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark 

 striae with white points at extremity of the veins ; cilia purplish 

 grey at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing whitisli uniformly sufi'used 

 with pale purplish brown ; cilia white tinged with greenish 

 ochreous towards apex ; the underside white, the costal and 

 apical ureas irrorated with purple-brown, a discoidal spot, sinuous 

 postmedial line with patches beyond it below apex and at sub- 

 median fold, and fine blaclt terminal line. 



Hah. Madagascak, Betsileo (Coivan), 2 (S . Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus AEBORICORNIS, ^^^ 



Arhoricorims, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 258 (1894) rubra. 



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

 reaching about middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, 

 the 3rd moderate; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennse of male 

 bipectinate with long bi-anches to apex; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed, the pro- and metathorax with small spreading crests; bnild slender ,- 

 tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with large dorsal crests on 2nd 

 a,nd 3rd segments. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and hardly crenulate, the tornns with scale tooth ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from npper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; i^, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



