AEDIA: SERRODES; HYPAETRA. By W. Warren. :S77 



A. flavescens Btlr. (67 i). Forewing oclireous speckled with grey brown; the inner margin with brown- flavescens. 

 black suffusion; a purplish black blotch on inner margin before inner and beyond outer line; lines black, 

 double and waved, the outer lunulate dentate and interrupted in midwing; claviform stigma brown; the upper 

 stigmata pale, with very fine black outlines; a black brown patch at apex; hindwing very pale yellow, 

 with broad blackish terminal border; the apex and fringe beyond it yellowish. A North Indian insect, 

 but recorded by Leech from many localities in Western China. In this species the terminal seg- 

 ment of palpi is quite short. 



30. Genus: Acdia Hbn. 



Resembles Anophia Guen., but the palpi are much longer, reaching well above the vertex; antennae 

 of o ciliated and with fine bristles; abdomen shorter, blunter at end, with a short stunt anal tuft, and 

 without the lateral tufts on second segment; legs short and smooth; forewing shorter and smoother. Larva 

 cylindrical, naked, feeding on Convolvulus in autumn, and pupating in an ear then cocoon, in which it passes 

 the winter unchanged, and emerges in summer. Type A. funesta JEsp. 



Ao funesta Esp. (= alchymista Esp. nee Schiff., leucomelas Hbn. nee L.) (67 i). Forewing purple black, funesta. 

 with the lines and outlines of all three stigmata finely intense black; on the costa before the outer line, and 

 partly encroaching both on it and the reniform stigma, is a large pale flesh coloured blotch ; subterminal line 

 interruptedly rufous, preceded by black blotches; hindwing black; a round white patch at base, not reaching 

 either margin; a white patch at apex and anal angle in the black fringe. Larva brownish grey with fine orange 

 yellow dots; dorsal markings kite-shaped; the lateral lines pale; feeds on Convolvulus in July and August, 

 hiding by day hi the ground or under leaves. Inhabits Central and Southern Europe, except Holland and Eng- 

 land; also found in Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, and Armenia. 



31. Genus: Serrodes Guen. 



Tongue present ; frons with conical tuft of hairs ; palpi strong, the second segment upturned, the third 

 short, pointed, porrect; antennae of $ shortly ciliated; thorax and abdomen smooth; the tibiae not spined, 

 but clothed with dense hair; wings with termen crenulate. Type S. inara Cram. 



S. campana (= nigha Guen., basisignum Walk., korana Fldr.) (68 b). Forewing of <$ with basal patch campana. 

 and outer half of wing brown, like the head and thorax, with only the median area pale greenish or brownish 

 ochreous; inner line black, curved, starting from a black costal spot, and below median vein swollen into a 

 large black lunule basewards, then outcurved and filled in with leaden grey; outer line double, more or less 

 curved, filled in with rufous, angled just below costa; reniform stigma broken up into dark spots with pale 

 edges; hindwing fuscous, with an obscurely pale median band; in the $ — nigha Guen. — ■ the median area 

 is suffused with brown, nearly as dark as the rest of the wing ; the outer line straight and vertical. A common 

 Eastern species, recorded by Leech from China. 



32. Genus: Hypaetra Guen. 



Tongue present ; frons smooth, with a prominent tuft of hair above ; palpi upturned, long, the se- 

 cond segment stout, thickly scaled, slightly curved, the third smooth, straight, and thin; antennae of £ varying 

 from shortly bipectinate to fasciculate; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled; tibiae of <J strongly fringed 

 with hair, the middle tibiae with a fold containing a pencil of hairs, the hind tibiae with a diffuse tuft 

 of hair at middle; fore-wing triangular, generally marked with blackish blotches; hindwing slightly elbowed 

 at end of vein 2, the anal angle truncate. Type H. noctuoides Guen. 



Sect. I. Antennae of <$ with stiff regular pectinations. 



H. chinensis spec. nov. (68 c). Forewing pale fawn grey, not so bright as that of bubo Hbn.; basal chinensls. 

 area purplish grey, followed by a large triangular velvety black blotch, its apex at median vein, with a sub- 

 quadrate black costal blotch above it reaching subcostal vein; then a pale greyish ochreous space limited 



