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9. Genus: Adistira Moore. 



Frons rounded; fore tibiae without spines or fringe of hairs; also without claws, which appear to 

 have become obsolete; in all other points belonging to this subfamily; mid and hind tibiae spined; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen smoothly scaled; palpi obliquely porrect, smoothly scaled, the terminal segment short; 

 antennae of £ ciliated; forewing broad, with the apex prominent, and termen nearly straight; markings 

 very slight; the lines indicated only by vein dots. Type A. atkinsoni Moore. 



A. atkinsoni Moore (51 a). Forewing ochreous grey, with slight pink tinge, which is more obvious alkinsoni. 

 towards costa; inner and outer lines marked by dark points on the veins; orbicular and reniform stigmata 

 indicated by ill-defined dark marks; hindwing yellower, with an ill-defined smoky grey submarginal shade. 

 — Occurs throughout China; described by Moore from N. W. India. 



10. Genus : Hebdonioelioiiclra Stgr. 



Like Timora Walk., but the palpi are shorter; the fore tibia has a short spine only, instead of 

 a claw, on outer side; in the forewing vein 6 is stalked with 7, 8, and the stalk of 9, 10 anastomosos 

 with that of 7, 8 to form the areole;in the hindwing veins 6, 7 are stalked; dorsum with a horny swelling 

 on the 7 th segment, whence the name of the genus. Type H. syrticola Stgr. 



H. syrticola Stgr. (51 a). Forewing uniform pale ochreous; hindwing white. From S. E. Russia and syrticola, 

 Turkestan. 



11. Genus: Erytliropliaia Stgr. 



Frons smoothly rounded, not projecting; fore tibia with one long curved claw on inner side and 6 

 claws on outer, which decrease in length towards base; mid and hindtibiae spined; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled: forewing uniform in coloration, with two pale cross lines and no stigmata. Type 

 E. eudoxia Stgr. 



E. suavis Stgr. Forewing greyish flesh colour, sprinkled with whitish; the lines pale; the suavis. 

 inner straight and oblique, the outer excurved above; hindwing and abdomen paler; underside of both 

 wings with a dark median shade. Hi and Fergana, Turkestan. 



E. eudoxia Stgr. (51 a). Forewing with the ground colour deep rufous, without any grey dusting; eudoxia. 

 the inner line curved, not straight, sometimes faintly paler-edged; hindwing and abdomen deep rufous; 

 underside of both wings with reddish cellspot as well as outer line. Kashgar. 



12. Genus: Cladocerotis Hmps. 



Differs from all the other genera of the subfamily in the following points; the tongue is small 

 and aborted; the palpi are clothed beneath with longer hair; the froutal prominence is truncate; the 

 antennae of the £ are strongly bipectinate to apex; the foretibiae, besides the long curved claw on inner 

 side and short one on outer, are laterally spined, as in Chloridea Westw.; mid and hind tibiae spined. 

 Type C. optabilis Bsd. 



The position of the genus here appears somewhat anomalous ; and believe it would be better placed 

 at the head of the Euxoinae, in front of the genus Euxoa, from which, indeed, it is separated only by 

 the presence of claws on the fore tibiae. 



C. optabilis Bsd. (50 m). Forewing ochreous tinged with olive brown, the costa and inner margin optabitis. 

 remaining- pale: the veins pale-lined on each side; stigmata pale; the claviform very long and narrow; 

 orbicular oval; remfofm angled inwards along median vein; submarginal line pale, outwardly dentate, the 

 marginal area beyond it darker; fringe whitish; hindwing of $ . ochreous white with dark veins, of $ 

 brownish. — A mediterranean species, occurring in France, Spain, Sicily, and Algeria; appearing. in autumn. 

 Larva luteous; dorsal line, which is clear only on first two segments, and the interrupted subdorsal lines, 

 brown; thoracic and anal plates brown; spiracles black; feeds on low plants, especially Pterotheca 

 nemaucensis, hiding by day in the ground, and hybernates. 



