NOCTUID.E. 541 



2855 a. Nodaria mundiferalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1206. 



Yellow ; head and thorax tinged with fulvous. Fore wing with 

 some dark rufous at base of costa ; two black specks at the angles 

 of cell ; traces of a postraeclial series of dark specks on the veins ; 

 a subuiarginal series of small white lunulate spots ; the marginal 

 area suffused with dark rufous ; the cilia fuscous. Hind wing 

 whitish in male, fuscous in female ; traces of a discocellular lunule 

 and postmedial line angled at vein 2 ; the marginal ai'ea suffused 

 with brown. Underside suffused and irrorated with brown ; hind 

 wing with discocellular lunule, crenulate postmedial line, and sub- 

 marginal series of white specks. 



Hab. Bhutan ; Borneo. Exp. 22 millim. 



2856. Insert (syn.) Herminia dolosa, Butl. A. M. "N. H. (5) iv, p. 446. 



2857 a. Nodaria grisealis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 120. 



Differs from erecta in the subuiarginal line of fore wing being- 

 bent outwards to the apex. 



Hab. Europe; Japan; Sikhim. Exp. 24-26 millim. 



2858 a. Nodaria erythropoda, n. sp. 



S . Differs from erecta in being ochreous ; the tufts on fore 

 tibia orange-red. Fore wing with the anteraedial line extremely 

 oblique; the postmedial line more oblique and angled beyond the cell. 



Hab. Bhutan {Dudgeon). Exp. 36 millim. Type in B. M. 



2870. Nodaria lysimeloides = 'N. neleusalis, Wlk. Cat.xvi, p. 201. 

 Borneo. 



Genus STHENISTIS, nov. 



Type, JS. gyrtoniformis, Hmpsn. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint thick, the 2nd and 3rd curved 

 over vertex of head ; antennae of male ciliated ; abdomen long. 

 Fore wing narrow in male ; vein 6 from below angle of cell, 

 7 & 8 stalked ; 9, 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 from middle of discocellulars : 6, 7 stalked. 



2874 a. Sthenistis gyrtoniformis, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax pale and dark brown, abdomen paler. 



Fore wing pale brown, thickly 

 markecl with short dark brown 

 streaks in the interspaces, the 

 inner margin paler, also the 

 outer area except towards costa : 

 traces of an antemedial line 

 appearing as a wedge-shaped 

 Fig. 280. mark on inner margin ; a dark 



Sthenistis gyrtoniformis, S . \. speck at lower angle of cell. 



with an obscure oblique line from 

 it to inner margin. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



