42G 
NOCTTj'IDJE. 
Genus CGENOBELA, nov. 
Type, C. paucula, Walk. (Poaphila), xv. 1838 (1858) ; 
Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 383 (1890). 
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 thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with slight ridge of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically 
bipectinate with rather long branches to near apex ; thorax 
clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; tibiae 
slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at 
base of dorsum, but without crests. Fore wing with the apex 
somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and slightly 
crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; G 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 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just 
above angle ; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 
cell near base only. 
Genus TYRISSA. 
Tyrissa, Walk. xxxv. 1975 (1866) 
Type. 
recurva, Walk. 
Tyrissa polygraplia, n. sp. 
<$. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed with 
grey, the frontal tuft defined by white at sides and the vertex 
of head with white line ; antennae with series of white points 
above towards base ; palpi with white line at sides and the 
extreme tip white ; tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing grey 
thickly irrorated with dark red-brown, the terminal area 
suffused with red-brown ; traces of a brown subbasal line, 
oblique to median nervure, then inwardly oblique to vein 1 
where it terminates ; an indistinct dentate antemedial line ; 
four indistinct lines beyond the cell, oblique to vein G, waved 
to vein 4, then inwardly oblique ; postmcdial line dark 
brown, acutely angled outwards at veins 8 and 7, angled 
inwards at vein 6 and outwards at discal fold, then oblique 
and excurved below veins 5, 4, 3, the costa beyond it with 
white points with blackish streaks between them ; sub- 
terminal line indistinctly double filled in with grey and 
dentate to vein 4, then treble, oblique and slightly sinuous ; 
a waved dark brown terminal line and pale line at base of 
cilia. Hind wing grey suffused with dark red-brown, the 
basal area more irrorated with brown ; a brown discoidal 
striga and point at lower angle of cell ; six oblique slightly 
sinuous brown lines beyond the cell ; postmcdial line dark 
brown defined on outer side by slight whitish points in the 
