AtrCH A . POLY ph.5]:nts. 



667 



indistinct, brown, dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly 

 angled inwards in diseal fold, incurved below vein 4, a triangular 

 red-brown patch beyond it on costal area with some grey points 

 on the costa; an indistinct waved brown subterminal line; a 

 terminal series of slight brown spots. Hind wing red-brown with 

 the terminal area dark brown ; cilia pale rufous with a red-brown 

 line near base ; the underside greyish suffused with rufous except 

 on inner area to the indistinct curved postmedial line, a slight 

 discoidal lunule. 



Hab. Bombay, 1 $, Karwar {T. B. Bell), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Genus POLYPH^NIS. 



PolpphoBnis, Boisd. TikI. Meth. p. 128 (1840) 



Triph(snopsis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (6) i. p. 163 (1878) , 



Type. 



scricata. 

 lucilla. 



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

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd typically 

 moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennaj of male typically bipec- 

 tinate with short branches, the apical part serrate; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the metathorax with 

 divided crest ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 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; 

 6 .obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex. 



3563. Polypliaenis xantliocMoris. 



Folyphanis xcmthochlm-is, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 128 (1840); Ilerr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 74, 75 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 184. 

 Nocttia alliacea, Germ. Faun. Ins. Eur. xxii. pi. 20 (1842) ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 257. 



S . Head and thorax brown mixed with white, ochrcous, red- 

 brown and black ; palpi dark brown at sides ; frons with lateral 

 dark brown bars ; tegulge with dark tips ; tarsi dark brown ringed 



Fig. 171. — Polyphfsnis xanthochloris, (^ 



-with white ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown and with grey- 

 brown bands. Fore wing pale grey-green irrorated with some 



