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NOCTUIDiE. 
Genus P0LI0F0CA, nov. 
T} r pe, P. gebenna, Swinh. ( Talapa ), A. M. N. H. (7) xi. 
“p. 509 (1903). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint 
obliquely upturned and reaching to vertex of head, rather 
broadly scaled in front and strongly fringed with hair behind 
except towards base, the 3rd short, porrect and thickly scaled 
in male, longer and more smoothly scaled in female ; frons 
smooth, with pointed tuft of hair 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 costa arched towards apex which is somewhat produced 
and acute, the termen somewhat excised below apex and 
excurved at middle, 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 ; the male with 
large costal fold on underside extending to middle. 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 HERPEPERAS, nov. 
Type, H. rudis, Walk. ( Amphigonia ), xxxiii. 1032 (1865). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled in 
front, the 3rd short and thickly scaled ; frons smooth ; eyes 
large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae 
moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled 
and without crests. Fore wing with the costa somewhat 
excised before apex which is produced and falcate, the 
termen excised below apex and' obtusely angled at vein 5, 
not 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 tornus obliquely 
truncate ; the cell about one-third 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. 
Herpeperas lavendula, n. Bp. 
$. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with 
rufous ; antennae finely ringed with brown ; pectus, legs and 
ventral surface of abdomen ochreous irrorated with black, 
