74 NOCTUID A. 
wing being darker ; a white speck in the cell; the postmedial line 
straighter, with the band beyond it whiter; some white marginal 
specks. Hind wing white, with the apical black area very large, 
and broad as far as vein 2; the costal and inner areas blackish. 
Hab. W. and 8. India; Ceylon. wp. 34 millim. 
Genus RHYNCHINA. 
Rhynchina, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 20 (1854). 
Type, R. pionealis, Guen. 
fianye. Palearctic and Oriental regions; W. Africa; Australia. 
Palpi with the 2nd joint very long and fringed with long hair on 
upperside, the 3rd obliquely upturned and scaled to half its 
length; a sharp frontal tuft; metathorax with a slight tuft; 
abdomen without tufts; tibie not hairy. Fore wing long and 
narrow ; the apex acute, the outer margin oblique; no raised tufts 
in cell. Hind wing with vein 5 from above lower angle of cell. 
Secr. I. Antennz of male minutely serrate and fasciculate, 
with long cilia. 
A. Palpi long, fringed with shortish hair above ; fore wing with outer 
margin obliquely curved. 
2911. Rhynchina abducalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 66; C. § S. no. 2861. 
Hypena undulalis, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1158; C. & S. no. 2921. 
Hypena curviferalis, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1510. 
Hypena columbaris, Bul. Ill. Het. ii, p. 55, pl. 38, fig. 7. 
Hypena vigens, Butl. Ill. Het. ii, p. 5d, pl. 38, fig. 4. 
Hypena incurvata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 189; C. & S. no. 2883. 
Hypena angustalis, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 817; C.& S. no. 2862 A. 
Hypena curvilinea, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. viii, p. 98, pl. 148, fig. 18. 
Pale reddish brown or grey. Fore wing with a curved dark and 
pale line from apex to below angle of cell, and thence to base, and 
with two or three less distinct dark lines outside it; the area above 
it suffused with brown, the veins paler; dark specks at middle and 
end of cell; a dark marginal line. 
In abducalis and curviferalis the curved line is almost straight 
from vein 4 to 1; in the former the dark suffusion above it is very 
prominent, and with a pale and dark line on its upper edge, the 
veins more prominently pale. In curvilinea from the Nilgiris the 
ground-colour 1s greyish white; the markings of fore wing very 
prominent, and the line evenly curved. 
Hab. Japan; China; Chusan Isl.; throughout India; Anda- 
mans; Java. Hep. 36-38 millim. 
B. Pal shorter, fringed with long hair above; fore wing with the 
outer margin straight and less oblique. 
2912. Rhynchina striga, Feld. Reis. Nov. pl. 109, fig. 29; C. § S. 
no. 2960. ‘ 
Hormisa morosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 446. 
Bright brownish ochreous; the male darker than the female. 
