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NOCTUID.E. 
Genus FACIDIA. 
Anereuthina, Hiibn. Zutr. ii. p 23 (1823) lion, descr., 
Moore. Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 171 (1885) renosn, Hiibn. 
Facidia, Walk, xxxiii. 951 (1865) vacillaus, Walk. 
Facidia luteilinea, n. sp. 
r£. Head, thorax, and abdomen chocolate-brown ; palp 1 
with the extreme tip of 3rd joint whitish ; pectus and anal 
tuft below rufous. Fore wing chocolate-brown ; antemedial 
line ochreous, oblique ; reniform a narrow deep chocolate- 
brown lunule ; postmedial line ochreous, obliquely incurved 
to discal fold, then slight, angled inwards at vein 5, then 
waved ; a lunulate chocolate-brown terminal line and fine 
pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing chocolate-brown ; a 
greyish ochreous postmedial line from discal fold to tornus, 
angled outwards at submedian fold. Underside of both wings 
entirely clothed with velvety deep chocolate-brown pile. 
Hab. S. NiC4ERiA, Old Calabar ( Cockburn ), 1 type. Exp. 
60 millim. 
Genus FACIDINA, nov. 
Type F .polystigma, Lower ( Jschyja ), Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. 
xxvii. p. 36 (1903). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, rather broadly scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind at extremity, the 3rd long 
and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons smooth with ridge 
of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipec- 
tinate with moderate branches, the apex with bristles and 
cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; 
tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal ridges 
of hair on basal segments, but without crests. Fore wing 
with the costa highly arched towards apex which is rounded, 
the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; vein 3 from well before 
angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 
9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 
cell. Hind wing with the cell less than half the length of 
wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just 
above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 
cell near base only. 
Genus PLATYJIONIA, nov. 
Type, P. sada, Swinh. ( Plalyja ), Fascic. Malay. Zool. i. 
p. 79 (1903). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair 
in front, the 3rd long ; frons smooth, with small tuft of hair ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of female almost simple ; thorax 
