NOCTUIDiE. 
dark lines, whicli are not waved, tlie most distinct of which is the outermost, which is curved 
inwards below the obscure reniform ; a dark patch on the costa before the apex with some 
pale costal strigse ; a submarginal series of white specks. Hind wing and underside fuscous ; 
underside of hind wing with indistinct cell-spot and postmedial and submarginal lines. 
Ozarba mianoides. (Plate CLXII. fig. 16.) 
Expanse | inch. 
Male. Head and thorax brown. Fore wing with the basal half dark umber-brown, 
crossed by indistinct waved lines, its outer edge angled below the median nervure; the outer 
half pale brown ; the apex and outer margin, except at the outer angle, darker and traversed 
by an indistinct, pale, submarginal line. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous. 
Metachrostis undulata. (Plate CLXII. fig. 20.) 
Expanse | inch. 
Male. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, powdered with black and crossed by numerous 
indistinct, waved, black lines ; a black speck near the base ; reniform fuscous ; a fuscous 
streak below the apex ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing uniform ochreous. 
Underside pale ochreous brown : fore wing suffused with fuscous ; hind Aving with indistinct 
cell-spot and postmedial line. Palpi black below and with the third joint black ; a black 
spot on the tegulse. 
ANACHROSTIS, g. n. 
Allied to Metachrostis, Hiib. ; the third joint of the palpi shorter ; the antennae simple in 
female ; the second subcostal of the fore wing bifid, not trifid ; the subcostals and two median 
nervules of the hind wing on a footstalk from the end of the cell ; no radial nervule. 
Anachrostis nigripuncta. (Plate CLXII. fig. 19.) 
Expanse | inch. 
Female. Pale brown. Fore wing with a dark subbasal speck in the cell ; dark waved 
antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal lines ; a black speck in the position of the reniform ; 
some ochreous strigae on the costa towards the apex ; a series of black marginal specks. 
Underside of hind wing with a cell-spot and faint postmedial line. 
ERASTROIDES, g. n. 
Antennae ciliated ; palpi with the second joint heavily scaled, the third joint short. Fore 
wing with the costal nervure two thirds the length of the wing ; the first subcostal at two 
thirds the length of the cell; the third quadrifid; the upper radial from the end of the cell ; 
the lower radial and third median from the lower end ; the second and first medians from 
