N0CTUIDJ5. 
moderately scaled in front and fringed with long spreading 
hair above, the 3rd rather long, obliquely upturned and 
fringed with hair above, in female the 2nd joint more oblique 
and with the fringe of hair oblique and not spreading ; frons 
smooth, with ridge of hah 1 above ; ej^es large, round ; antennae 
of male with long bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed with 
hair and scales mixed and without crests ; the fore coxae, 
femora and tibiae fringed with rather long hah', the mid and 
hind legs smoothly scaled ; build slender ; abdomen dorsally 
smoothly scaled. Fore wing with the apex produced and 
acute, the termen excised below apex and angled at vein 4, 
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 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half 
the 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. 
Type, E. esquina, Dogn. ( Noctua ), Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, 
xli. p. 29 (1897). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
short and blunt ; frons with small rounded prominence ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed 
crest ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 
crests on three basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 
somewhat produced, the termen obtusely angled at vein 4, 
then oblique, 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; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 
half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 fully 
developed from well above angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
9- Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown slightly mixed 
with whitish, the pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen 
with more white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused and 
irroratcd with red-brown, the terminal area winter, narrowing 
to a point below apex ; a minute black spot in middle of cell ; 
Genus EUGRAMM0DE3, nov. 
Genus HETEROPYGAS. 
Heteropygas , G-uen. Noct. iii. p. 285 (1852) 
Heteropygas nymbides, n. sp. 
