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H. noctuoides Gn. Forewings reddish grey-brown. The antemedian line indicated by a small black noctuo-idea. 
speck on costa and a large crescentiform marloon submedian fold. An arched dark median line is faint ly apparent. 
Reniform stigma as a grey-blue patch to below the cell, it is hollowed out on inner side. A dark postmedian 
line immediately behind the reniform stigma. The undulate dark submarginal line is somewhat more distinct. 
36—40 mm. India, Malacca, Sunda Islands. 
39. Genus: Mods Him. 
This Genus is exhaustively dealt with in Vol. 15, p. 248 and we refer to what is written there. 
I. Hind tibiae and tarsi of with long hairs. 
M. frugalis F. This species, that is distributed over West Africa to the australian archipelago, has al frugalis. 
ready been described in Vol. 3, p. 333, pi. 61 g and also in Vol. 15, p. 249, pi. 30 b. 
M. vitiensis Hmps. (55 b) distantly resembles frugalis. Wings pale ochreous brown, lilac-brown in marginal vitiensis. 
area. Forewings narrowly darker on costa. Inner line delicately brown, excurved in cell, turning inwards on 
submedian fold, then obliquely outwards to inner margin. A black dot before it on inner margin, another in 
centre of cell, one on vein 2 with a faint black annulet above it. Reniform stigma indicated by a delicate brown 
circumscription. Postmedian line from below costa near apex, heavily black, straight with diffuse red-brown 
outer edge. Submarginal line consists of black dots. Hindwings with arched dark outer line and dark margin. 
40 mm. One $ from the Fiji Islands. 
2. Hind tarsi of without hairs on upper si d e. 
M. undata F. is almost as widely distributed as frugalis. It was therefore dealt with in Vol. 3, p. 333. undata. 
pi. 61 g and also in Vol. 15, p. 249, pi. 30 c. It occurs eastwards as far as the Philippines and the Sunda Islands. 
M. trifasciata Steph. (= demonstrans Wkr., discrepans Btlr.) (55 c). Forewings lilac grey-brown. Ante- trifasciata. 
median line dark brown, pale inwardly, straight, vertical, outwurdly diffusely reddish brown. Reniform stigma 
with brown edge, large. Postmedian line brown, excurved below costa, indented inwards at vein 7, incurved 
behind the cell; it proceeds downwards to submedian fold, forms a band upwards to reniform stigma, then 
excurved to inner margin; at inner margin the line is very narrow and the space before it is darker. Generally 
these markings are all obscure and only a straight dark stripe behind the antemedian line and another that 
tapers off towards the inner margin before and behind the postmedian line, are apparent. Hindwings as in 
undata. 35—40 mm. Ceram, Aru and Key Islands, Amboina, New Guinea, Queensland, Marquesas Islands. 
M. aSterna Wkr. (55 c). Forewings brownish white. Antemedian line bold, black-brown, oblique, some- alterna. 
what undulate, pale inwardly. Median line brown, more vertical, indistinct. Reniform stigma with brown edge, 
distally thereof an irregular black patch. The dark brown postmedian line is similarly curved to that of undata 
and trifasciata. Submarginal line white, finely undulate; hindwings paler than in trifasciata. The $ is deeper 
brown, ante and postmedian lines with heavier white edges, the black patch behind the reniform stigma is 
absent. nebuligera $ Btlr. denotes a pale grey-brown 2 from Queensland. 32 — 40 mm. New Guinea to Australia, nebuligera. 
M. laxa Wkr. (= pavona Fid.). This species also occurs in China and India and is fully dealt with in laxa. 
Vol. 3, p. 334, pi. 61 g and a specimen with a pale median band, that was captured at Sikkim, is described as 
— languenscens Warr. 
M. discios Roll. Also this species is included in Vol. 3, p. 335, pi. 61 h, as it is found on the boundary discios. 
of the palaearctic territory and perhaps also occurs in Japan. Its main distribution is doubtless in India. In 
Vol. 3 a paler form with wider median area is described and illustrated on pi. 61 h as — latiorata Warr. 
40. Genus : Sypn oi<les Hmps. 
Palpi.elongate, also the 3rd segment is well developed. A tuft fore and aft on thorax. The short fore- 
tibiae without spurs, all tibiae with insignificant hairs; differing thereby from Mods. The edges of both wings 
are undulate. Of the 3 species of this Genus, one is african. one palaearctic. 
S. pannosa Mr. (55 d) closely resembles the palaearctic mandarina Leech (Vol. 3, p. 335), differing by pannosa. 
the fasciculate, not pectinate antennae. Forewings ochreous reddish. Basal area narrow with almost vertical 
edge, black-brown. Antemedian line double, red-brown, obliquely inwards. Median line brown, undulate, diffuse. 
Postmedian line indistinct, red-brown, excurved anteriorly, inwards below vein 5. Distally a black-brown 
triangular mark on costa, a marginal spot from vein 3 to inner margin. Hindwings ochreous brown, rufous 
upwards to vein 5 in marginal area. 45—60 mm. India. 
