430 NOCTPID^. 



on costa ; subterminal line represented by an oblique white bar 

 from costa, then by the contrast between the greyish postmedial 

 and dark terminal areas, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at 

 middle, then incurved ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia red-brown. 

 Hind wing pale red-brown ; cilia whitish with a brown line through, 

 them ; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with brown 

 especially on costal area and terminal half, a small discoidal spot 

 and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, Iladevko in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



Genus T^NIOSEA. 



Type, 

 Tceniosca, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 143 (1874) ... discivaria. 



Proboscis lully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate, 

 porrect ; fron.s smootli ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; build slender ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen 

 evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; 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 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



3268. Tseniosea discivaria. 



Bryophila discivaria, Wlk. ix. 27 (1856) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 217. 

 Tcsniosea gentilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 143 (1874). 

 Tceniosea perbellis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 144 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi fuscous at 

 sides ; antennas ringed with white towards base ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous, the anal 

 tuft brownish. Fore wing grey suffused with purplish red, except 

 on inner area, to postmedial line and at costa to subtermiual line, 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, double filled 



Fig. 76. — Tceniosea discivaria, (^ . \, 



in with greyish, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 oblique, waved; claviform small, slightly defined by brown; orbi- 

 cular and reniform greyish irrorated with red and with pale annuli 

 defined by fuscous, the former irregularly rounded, small, the latter 

 constricted at middle and with its lower part filled in with fuscous ; 

 a diffused incurved red shade from lower angle of cell to inner 



