54 NOCTUID R. 
Palpi with the 2nd joint smoothly scaled in front. Fuscous 
brown ; fore wing with the base dark; the autemedial area pale or 
reddish brown, crossed by a more or less developed, ill-defined, 
dark medial band; a black speck or spot sometimes present at end 
of cell; the outer half of wing dark, with an indistinct pale waved 
submarginal line. Hind wing pale, with indistinct cell-spot and 
postmedial line, which are prominent on underside. 
The form lentalis is small, with the antemedial area of fore wing 
reddish ; wliginosalis is large, with the antemedial area pale olive ; 
whilst in latéfasccalts from the Andamans it is whitish. 
Hab. 8. Africa; Japan ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 
Andamans; Borneo; Celebes; Australia. Hwp. 24-30 millim. 
2847. Hydrillodes morosa, Butl. Ill. Het. iii, p. 64, pl. 56, fig. 15; 
C. & S. no. 2930. / 
3. Differs from lentals in the 2nd joint of palpi of male being 
fringed with long scales in front so as to appear more angular. 
The Japanese form has the subbasal area of fore wing pale: the 
Ceylonese form has it reddish, and the submarginal line reduced 
to specks. 
Hab. Japan; Ceylon. xp. 24 millim. 
*2848. Hydrillodes transversalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 613; 
C. & S. no. 2974. 
Pale brown. Fore wing with waved medial white line. Hind 
wing with the cilia chequered brown and grey. Underside pale, 
with medial dark band, which is sinuous on hind wing. Palpi and 
legs black speckled. 
Hab. Andamans. Zap, 28 millim. 
B. Antenne of male minutely ciliated ; fore wing unth veins 
6, 7, 8, 9, 10 distorted and bent. 
2849. Hydrillodes torsivena, n. sp. 
3. Differs from abavalis in being darker ; fore wing with the 
postmedial series of specks less prominent. 
Hab. Sikhim (Moller). Hap. 32 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 
C. (Bibacta). Antenne: of male with long cilia ; fore wing with a small 
fold at base of costa, containing an erectile tuft of long hair ; the 
apex truncate; vein 11 from angle ap cell and very short. 
2850. Hydrillodes truncata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 198, pl. 6, fig. 25 ; 
C. & S. no. 2967. 
3. Dark fuscous brown. Fore wing with traces of medial and 
submarginal waved lines. Hind wing pale fuscous ; underside with 
cell-spot and medial and submarginal lines. 
Hab. Sikhim. Hap. 32 millim. 
