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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 377 head flat above; palpi large, thick, pointed at the tip, ascending to the vertex and then projecting out in front; legs moderately long, laxly squamose; antennae filiform. CULASTA INDECISA, n. Sp. Fore wing pale greyish ochreous, greyest externally, with an indistinct oblique grey streak ascending from middle of posterior margin to below the apex, the streak bordered on the inner side by a contiguous brown line, which is broken and diffused at the apex, and on the outer side by broader suffused brown lines; a minute brown dot at lower end of the cell, and a row of dots on outer margin: hind wing whitish ochreous; cilia white. Body, palpi, and legs pale ochreous. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Madras; Bombay (Dr. Leith) ; Benares (Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. Fam. HYBLiEID^E. Genus P H Y C O D E S. Phycodes, Guenee, Noct. xi. p. 389 (1852). Tegna, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxv. p. 1810 (1866). Wings elongated : fore wing narrow, rectangular ; exterior margin almost erect; costal vein extending two thirds the margin; first subcostal branch emitted at half length of the cell, second at one fifth, third, fourth, and fifth from end of the cell; discocellular very slender, slightly bent at each end, radials from the angles ; cell very long and narrow, extending two thirds the wing; upper and middle median branches from angles at end of the cell, lower from one fifth before the end ; submedian much waved. Hind wing long, costal margin extending to length of fore wing, exterior margin very oblique, abdominal margin short; costal vein nearly straight, extending to apex; subcostal waved, first and second branches emitted from immediately before end of the cell; discocellular slightly oblique and convex, radial from slight angle near its middle ; two upper median branches emitted at a short distance beyond end of the cell, lower at one third before its end; submedian straight, internal vein curved. Body short, stout, smooth, abdomen thick; front of thorax and head projecting much beyond base of costa; palpi short, not extending beyond the head, second joint very broad and flat, third joint minute, conical; legs smooth, short; middle and hind tibiae short, thick, spined and with slight spiny tufts above ; antennae thickened near the base, tips slightly clavate in male. PHYCODES HIRUNDINICORNIS. Phycodes hirundinicornis, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 389 (1852). Tegna hybla?ella, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxv. p. 1810 (1866). Hab. N. and S. India (Lucknow, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1880, No. XXV. 25 |