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Show 1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTINJE. 231 ciliated ; tibiae with the outer spurs two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing with a large tuft of rough hair on inner margin before middle ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. Type. (1) CYN^EDA DENTALIS Schiff. Wien. ATerz. p. 120 ; '& Dup. Lep. Fr. viii. pi. 215. f. 1. Europe ; AV. Asia. Noctua fulminans Fabr. Ent. Syst. no. 311. Phalcen'a ramalis Fabr. Ent. Syst. no. 378. Noctua radiata Esp. iv. p. 374. (2) CYNiEDA FURIOSA Stgr. List, xxxiii. Syria. Auctorum. Odontia exoticalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xviii. p. 191, pi. xi. f. 3. AY. Indies. Genus 138. MNESICTENA. , Mnesictena Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 328. Palpi porrect, extending about one and a half times length of head, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; maxillary palpi strongly dilated with scales ; frons rounded; antennae ol male minutely ciliated; tibiae with the outer spurs two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 separate at origin; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the median nervure loosely pectinated; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 separate at origin ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 138. Mnesictena quadralis, 3 • b Twe CI) MNESICTENA QUADRALIS Doubl. Dieff. N. Zeal. i. p. 288. 9Jf ' v J New Zealand. marmorina Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 329. (2)tMNESiCTENA NOTATA Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 493. New Zealand. (3) MNESICTENA FLAVIDALIS Doubl. Dieff. N. Zeal. i. p. 287. •fScopula dipsasalis Wlk. xviii. 796. New Zealand. Botys otagalis Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 134. f. 35. |