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ORTHO SI A; ANEPILECTA; TRICHEUROIS; TRIPHAENA. By W. Warren. 
8. Genus: Orthosia Tr. 
Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upcurved, the second segment thickly haired in front, the ter¬ 
minal short and blunt; antennae of $ with sessile fascicles of cilia; head and thorax rough-haired; mid and hind 
tibiae spined; the foretibiae fringed with hair; neuration normal, except that veins 6, 7 of hindwing are shortly 
stalked. Type 0. coecimacula Schiff. 
Indiana. 0. indiana Guen. (= violacea Btlr.) (Vol. 3, pi. 14 e). $ Forewing dull olive brown, sprinkled with 
whitish, and with purplish red suffusion at base, along median shade, and before submarginal line; stigmata 
margined, the reniform also filled up, with reddish; a white dot at lower angle of cell; hindwing brownish fuscous; 
brown without reddish tinge; the two lines black and distinct; base of inner margin of forewing beneath 
with an oblong white patch. Guenee’s type, a <J, from N. India; Butler’s from Dharmsala in the Punjab; 
also from Sultanpore, Kulu, and beyond the Indian boundaries from Kashmir. 
9. Genus: Anepilecta gen. nov. 
Tongue developed; frons smooth, surmounted by a ridge of scales between the antennae; palpi up¬ 
turned ; second segment heavily scaled in front, the third long, smooth and slender, erect; antennae of <3 with sessile 
fascicles of cilia; thorax crested; abdomen not dorsally flattened; mid and hind tibiae spined; veins 6, 7 of hind¬ 
wing shortly stalked; forewing elongate, narrow, the termen oblique. Type A. accipiter Feld. Felder’s species 
is not conspecific with linogrisea the type of Epilecta Hbn. 
acdpiter. A. accipiter Feld. (8f $; G cf. Vol. 3, pi. 14 h). Forewing dull purple brown; costal area suffused with 
lichen green scales, more broadly at base and beyond cell; the inner margin to termen tinged with redbrown; 
lines black, double, filled in with pale; the outer dentate on veins; submarginal line preceded below costa by 
two black sagittate marks; claviform stigma small, with black outline; orbicular chill red; reniform grey green 
with dull red lateral margins; hindwing and fringe pale yellow; terminal border dark fuscous, narrowing to 
a point at anal angle. Pangi, N. W. Himalayas, and Sikkim; also in Tibet. 
10. Genus: Tridienrois Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; frons obliquely rounded; palpi upturned, fringed with hair in front; eyes 
large, hairy, but the mid and hind tibiae are spined; head and thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; 
in the hindwings veins 6, 7 are short-stalked. Type T. nigrocuprea Moore. Distinguished from all other genera 
with spined tibiae by having the eyes hairy, a characteristic otherwise of the next subfamily. 
cuprina. T. cuprina Moore (8f). Forewing deep brown with a dull leaden-blue suffusion in places, strongest 
below middle of wing and on the upper stigmata; the lines deeper brown edged slightly with leaden blue; outer 
line distinctly lunulate-dentate; submarginal line pale, preceded by a purer redbrown band; claviform stigma 
thickly outlined with deep brown; orbicular and reniform filled up with leaden grey scales and outlined in black; 
the orbicular irregularly rounded, often oblique, sometimes with an inwardly projecting point; hindwing fuscous 
grey, deeper along termen. Sikkim. 
nigro- T. nigrocuprea Moore (8 f). Like cuprina but smaller, darker brown with slighter red admixture and 
cuprea. w itii very little leaden blue suffusion; the reniform stigma with a bright white dot on its outer edge on median 
vein; hindwing paler towards base, nearly always showing a darker submarginal band, outer line, and cellspot; 
coecata. in the ab. coecata ab. nov. (8 f ), the white spot on the reniform is clouded over; this form is often confounded 
with cuprina, but that is large and bluer. Sikkim. All the 3 forms appear to occur together. 
11. Genus: TrfpliiieiiH Hbn. 
Tongue strong; frons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment hairy, the third short, also 
hairy beneath; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter dorsally flattened; only 
the mid and hind tibiae spined; forewing with subparallel margins. A genus of stoutly built moths, with 
strongly developed legs. Type T. mterjecta Hbn. 
semiher- T. semiherbida Walk. (8 f, shows a conspicuous Indian specimen from Sikkim; a paler palaearctic 
bida. specimen has been figured in Vol. 3, pi. 14 h). Forewing dull green mixed with reddish fuscous; the 
lines fuscous, double, filled in with green; the outer strongly lunulate-dentate below middle, simply out- 
curved and vertical above; median area fuscous, except along costa and submedian fold; also the terminal 
area and the praesubmarginal shade which is broad and contains a black dash below costa; claviform stigma 
small, fuscous; orbicular and reniform brown with green centres and annuli; the lateral edges of orbicular and 
the inner edge of reniform sharply black; hindwing orange with broad black terminal border, emitting fuscous 
streaks to base along costa, submedian fold, and inner margin; a large black cell spot; fringe and patches on ter- 
