410 
xoctuid^:. 
patch of rough hair on underside beyond the cell between 
veins 8 and 2. Hind wing with the terruen strongly crenulate, 
the tornus obliquely truncate ; the cell about one-third 
length of wing ; vein 3 from before angle ; 5 fully developed 
from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only ; male with a patch of rough 
hair on underside in and beyond end of cell between veins 
8 and 2. 
Genus SILIGNEA, nov. 
Type, S. albopundata, B.-Bkr. (Zethes), Nov. Zool. xiii. 
p. 276 (1806). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to rather above vertex of head, rather broadly 
scaled in front and fringed with hair behind except towards 
base, the 3rd moderate, thickly scaled and with tuft of hair 
behind ; frons smooth, with ridge of scales above ; eyes 
large, round ; antennae of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax 
clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae 
moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough 
hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with 
the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and strongly 
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 one- 
third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Genus SAROBIDES, nov. 
Type, S. inconclusa, Walk. ( Cosmophila ), Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Zool. vii. p. 77 (1864) ; Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. 
p. 192 (1900). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to well above vertex of head, moderately scaled in 
front and fringed with hair behind except at base, the 3rd 
moderate, thickly scaled and fringed with hair behind ; 
frons smooth, with ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 
antennae of male with bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with small paired 
crests formed of metallic scales ; tibiae moderately fringed 
with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum 
but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 
termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 
from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 
