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NOCTUID.E. 
to vein 1 ; two waved blackish antemedial lines, incurved 
in the cell and excurved below it ; a small blackish annulus 
in middle of cell ; reniform faintly defined by ochreous and 
its centre by blackish, large, constricted at middle, a rather 
diffused sinuous blackish medial line ; postmedial line double, 
blackish filled in with grey, waved, oblique to vein 6, incurved 
at discal fold, from above vein 2 recurved upwards to lower 
angle of cell and excurved above inner margin, the lower part 
of its sinus above vein 2 filled in with black ; subterminal 
line reddish brown defined on each side by diffused black- 
brown, waved ; a series of blackish bars before termen and a 
waved blackish terminal line ; cilia with fine pale lines at 
base and towards tips. Hind wing dark reddish brown suffused 
with purple-grey ; postmedial line double, blackish, waved ; sub- 
terminal line ochreous brown defined on each side by blackish, 
sinuous, slightly angled outwards at discal fold ; a series of 
black bars before termen, a waved black terminal line and a 
fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside dark reddish brown ; 
fore wing with waved black postmedial line, faint sinuous 
pale subterminal line with whitish spot at submedian fold, 
and terminal series of whitish points ; hind wing with oblique 
waved black postmedial line defined on outer side by slight 
pale marks at discal and submedian fold, a diffused blackish 
subterminal line, excurved at discal fold and with whitish 
spot on its outer side at submedian fold, a series of small 
blackish spots before termen and waved terminal line with 
whitish points in the interspaces. 
Hab. Assam (Badgley), 1 $ type. Exp. 76 rnillim. 
Gh nus PTERONYCTA, i,ov. 
Type, P. fasciata. 
Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, short, clothed 
with rather long hair ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair ; 
eyes large, round ; antennse in both sexes bipectinate, the 
branches rather long towards base, the basal joint with tuft 
of hair ; thorax clothed almost entirely with hair and without 
distinct crests ; tibiaj fringed with long hair ; abdomen 
with dorsal crests on three basal segments. Fore wing with 
the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 
9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from 
cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly 
fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 
(>, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
