400 NOCTUID^. 



Genus ODONTODES. 



Odontodes, Gum. Noct. iii, p. 50 (1852). 



Nedroma, Wlk. Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasgow, i, p. 353 (1869) 



Burdria, Wlk. Char. Undesc. Het. p. 50 (1869). 



Type, 0. aleuca, Gruen. 



Range. W. Africa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Java. 



Antennas very long and slender ; palpi slender and upturned, 

 the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd short; thorax 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen with a tuft on first segment. Fore 

 wing slightly arched towards apex, which is rectangular ; the outer 

 angle slightly hooked ; slight tufts of raised scales. 



2282. Odontodes aleuca, Gum. Noct. iii, p. 51 ; C. $ & no. 2369. 

 Briarda bolinoides, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1802 ; C. | S. no. 2370. 

 Steiria subfasciata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 922. 

 Steiria quadristrigata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 923. 

 Odontodes inordinata, Butt. III. Het. vii, p. 14. 

 Nedroma ferruginea, Wlk. Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasgow, i, p. 353. 

 Burdria edemoides, Wlk. Char. Undesc. Het. p. 50; C. fy S. 

 no. 2397. 



Dark red-brown. Fore wing with short subbasal line ; double 



waved antemedial and waved 

 and curved medial lines ; a double 

 dentate postmedial line excurved 

 beyond cell ; traces of a dentate 

 submarginal line; the reniform 

 large and indistinct. Hind wing 

 fuscous red-brown, the basal area 

 more or less hyaline, the outer 

 area darkest ; the cilia ochreous. 

 Underside with the basal area of 

 Fig. 222. both wings pale, with the veins 



Odontodes aleuca, <$ . f. and cell-spot dark brown ; the 



outer area dark brown. 

 Some specimens have the fore wing much more variegated, with 

 some white beyond the medial line and in the double ante- and 

 postmedial lines ; others have the reniform white, and others a 

 broad pale fascia on inner margin to the postmedial line or outer 

 angle ; others, again, are pale with a broad black fascia from the 

 base below cell, or the medial line may be imvardly bordered by 

 black. 



Hah. W. Africa ; throughout India and Burma. Eocp. 48 

 millim. 



Genus STICT0PTEEA. 



Stictoptera, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 51 (1852). 

 Dandaca, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 149 (1856). 

 Steiria, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1135 (1857). 

 jEgilia, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1138. 

 Minica, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1139. 



