282 noctuid^;. 



line. Hind wing pale, the veins and margins suffused with reddish 

 brown ; underside with cell-spot and postmedial series of specks. 



Fig. 150. — Floccifera erigida, <$. \. 

 Hob. Thyetmyo, Burma. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus AKCILASISA. 



Arcilasisa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 470 (1865). 

 Tiracola, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351. 



Type, A. sobria, Wlk. 



Mange. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Australia. 



Eyes minutely pubescent ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 obliquely porrect, with somewhat long hair below; thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts ; legs without spines. 



Sect. I. (Arcilasisa). Antennae fasciculated in male ; the 

 cilia of fore wing slightly crenulate. 



1939. Arcilasisa sobria, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 470; C. fy S. no. 1699. 



Uniform pale grey-brown ; fore wing irr orated with dark scales. 

 Underside of hind wing with a black cell-spot. 

 Hob. Kulu ; Sikhim ; S. India. Exp. 76 millim. 



Sect. II. (Tiracola). Antennae minutely ciliated in male ; 

 fore wing with the cilia strongly toothed. 



1940. Arcilasisa plagiata, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 740 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. hi, 



pi. 148, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. fy S. no. 1996. 

 Agrotis plagifera, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 741. 

 Agrotis spectabilis, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 704. 



Pale grey-brown; abdomen fuscous. Pore wing often much 

 suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown ; an indis- 

 tinct waved antemedial line, often almost obsolete ; the orbicular 

 obsolete ; the reniform almost obsolete, ochreous or fuscous, some- 

 times on a dark patch ; traces of a postmedial curved series of 

 black specks ; a submarginal doubly curved ochreous line ; a mar- 

 ginal series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia whitish. 



