412 NOCTUID^. 



Sect. IV. Antennte of male minutely sei'rate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with two white streaks in base of cell extending to 



anteraedial line decipiens. 



E. Fore wing without white streaks in base of cell. 



a. Head, thorax, and fore wing without reddish tinge. 



fli. Fore wing with the basal area and postmedial area except 



towards costa much whiter than the ground-colour ... hilli. 

 h\ Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas con- 

 colorous. 

 a". Fore wing with the antemedial line distinct. 



a^. Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish white, 



the orbicular very oblique albertiiia 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour not bluish white, 



the orbicular less oblique claudens. 



1-. Fore wing with the antemedial line obsolescent unicincta, 



b. Head, thorax, and fore wing tinged with reddish tcnera. 



3245. 



Hadena decipiens, Alph. Iris, viii. p. 193 (1895) 



pi. 13. f. 13 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 173. 

 PhcBbophihcs sajamcs, B. Haas, Iris, xviii. p. 133, pi 



EremolDia decipiens. 



id. Eom. Mem. ix. p. 214, 

 f. 8 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with white and fuscous ; 

 tegulse with black line at middle and dark tips ; patagia with 

 white streaks ; pectus and legs olive-brown mixed with greyish, 

 the tarsi with slight white rings ; abdomen olive-brown with slight 

 whitish segmental lines. Fore wing olive-brown ; a small fan of 

 white-tipped scales at base ; subbasal line represented by double 

 black striae from costa and cell, filled in with white and with two 



Eremohia decipiens, (^ . 



white streaks between them in cell, extending to the antemedial 

 line, which is defined by white on inner side, angled outwards 

 below costa, in submedian fold and above inner margin and in- 

 wards in cell and on vein 1 ; claviform defined by white, rather 

 elongate and acute at extremity, with white streak in middle ; 

 orbicular and reniform with undefined white annuli, the former 

 very oblique elliptical, open above, the latter open above and 

 below ; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7, excurved at middle and angled inwards at discal 



