NOCTUIDiE. 
28 t> 
one-thircl length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 
developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus LOPHOPANILLA. nov. 
Type, L. obscurissima, Holl. (Panilla), Psyche, vii. p. 48, 
pi. ii. f. 18 (1894). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled in front, and 
slightly fringed with hair behind at extremity ; the 3rd 
moderate and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with ridge of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely 
serrate and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with 
scales and without crests, the tegulae in male fringed with 
long scales covering a tuft of hair ; tibiae moderately fringed 
with hair ; abdomen, except basal segments, with dorsal series 
of crests formed by metallic scales. Fore wing with the 
apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above 
angle ; (> from just below upper angle ; 7 very shortly stalked 
with 8, 9 ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the 
length of wing, veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed 
from well above angle ; (5, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Genus PANILLA. 
I ypo. 
Panilla, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 93 (1885) dispila, W«lk. 
Panilla xylonea, n. sp. 
(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with brown 
and some red ; palpi brown with some pale red at extremity 
of 2nd joint, the 3rd joint white with black band ; fore legs 
dark brown, the tarsi whitish except at base ; mid and hind 
legs brown and whitish ; pectus and ventral surface of 
abdomen whitish. Fore wing white suffused with reddish 
brown ; a small blackish discoidal spot ; two blackish strigse 
from medial part of costa and a postmedial striga ; a faint 
diffused whitish subterminal line exeurved below vein 7 and 
at middle. Hind wing white suffused with reddish brown ; 
a blackish discoidal striga with traces of a sinuous line from 
it to inner margin ; a postmedial series of black points except 
toward costa ; traces of a whitish subterminal line forming a 
small spot above tornus. Underside white tinged and 
irrorated with reddish brown ; hind wing with small dark 
discoidal spot. 
Hub. S. Nigeria, Sapele (Sampson), 1 J type. Exp. 20 
millim. 
