546 NOCTUIDJE. 



postmedial line. Underside with lunule at end of cell and straight 

 postmedial line to both wings ; fore wing with subapical spot. 



Hah. Peninsular India, Ceylon, Burma ; Andainans. Exp. 60 

 millim. 



Genus BEMATHA. 



Bematha, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1095 (1865). 



Type, B. externa, Wlk. 



Range. " N. India." 



Palpi upturned and reaching just above vertex of head ; antennae 



Fig. 307. — Bematha extensa, $ . \. 



thickly ciliated ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae hairy 

 and not spined. Pore wing with the costa nearly straight ; the 

 outer margin obliquely rounded. 



2618. Bematha extensa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1095 ; C. $ S. no. 3024. 



<3 . Orange-yellow ; the tarsi white. Pore wing with the costa 

 and outer area suffused with rufous ; a dark speck in cell and 

 some white specks on discocellulars ; an indistinct rufous waved 

 line just beyond the middle and crenulate fuscous postmedial line. 

 Hind wing with sinuous medial line and crenulate postmedial line. 

 Underside with some rosy suffusion and white below costa of 

 fore wing. 



Hal. " N. India." Exp. 50 millim. 



Genus 0XY0DES. 

 Oxyodes, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 128 (1852). 



Type, 0. scrobiculata, Pabr. 



Range. China; throughout the Indian region ; Java; Australia; 

 Piji. 



Palpi upturned and smoothly scaled, the 2nd joint reaching 

 vertex of head, the 3rd long ; antennae almost simple ; thorax and 

 abdomen smoothly scaled and somewhat slender ; tibiae not spined ; 

 fore tibiae fringed with hair. Pore wing with the apex produced 

 and acute ; the outer margin slightly excised and the cilia crenulate. 



2619. Oxyodes SCrobiculata, Fair. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 212 ; Moore, Lep 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 164, fig. 1 ; C. $ 8. no. 2497. 

 Phalaena clytia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 399, G. 



