162 N0V^TATKS ZOOLOC.ICAE XXV. 1918. 



striae on termen to" ards apex ; cilia tinged with pale red-brown. Underside 

 of forewing white, suffused with reddish brown except on inner area ; hindwing 

 creamy white with the ante- and postmedial lines faint. 



Hah. Ceylon, Peradeniya (Green), 1 S type. Exp. 14 mill. 



Genus TroJccraspis nov. 



Type: T. durhanica. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 head, the 2nd joint fringed with hair above except at base, the 3rd minute and 

 thickly scaled ; frons with rounded prominejice thickly clothed with scales ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male somewhat laminate and sUghtly ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; fore and mid 

 tibiae moderately fringed \vit\i scales and the 1st joint of tarsi with small tufts 

 of scales above, the hind tibiae strongly tufted with scales towards extremity 

 and the 1st joint of tarsus with large tuft of scales above ; abdomen with some 

 rough hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Forewing with the costa 

 slightly excised at middle and arched towards apex, which is produced to a 

 rather rounded lobe, the termen excised below apex and strongly excurved at 

 middle ; then again excised, not crenulate ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from just 

 above angle of cell ; 6 from below- upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 1 1 from cell. 

 Hindwing with the termen excurved at vein 7, then excised, produced and 

 somewhat falcate at vein 3, then again excised and excurved at vein 2 ; the 

 cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 nearly fuUj- developed 

 from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Cantaeschra in the forewing having veins 3, 4 stalked. 



5072a. Trogocraspis durbanica n. sp. 



(J. Head white shghtly tinged with rufous ; thorax and abdomen rufous 

 excised with some white and a few dark brown scales. Fore\ving with the basal 

 area grey-wliite with a small red-brown spot at base of costa and its outer edge 

 oblique, the rest of wing rufous irrorated with a few dark brown scales ; traces 

 of a brown antemedial line : an indistinct diffused brown medial Hne, oblique 

 to subcostal nervure, then erect ; an obUque black brown discoidal striga ; 

 postmedial line oblique and wliite to vein 6, then faint and waved, obUque below 

 vein 4 ; a triangular grey-white patch on costal area before the subterminal 

 series of black-brown points, angled outwards at middle ; a brown terminal 

 Une. Hindwing grey-white suffused with rufous except on costal and inner 

 areas and irrorated with a few dark brown scales ; obUque dark brown medial 

 and postmedial lines and some dark subterminal marks from vein 4 to tornus ; 

 a fine dark brown terminal line. Underside white suffused with red-brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown ; forewing with oblique dark medial hne, oblique 

 waved postmedial hne, and subterminal series of dark spots defined on inner 

 side by diffused white and excurved at middle ; hindwing with diffused dark 

 medial line excurved by vein 4 ; minutely waved postmedial line with a dark 

 shade beyond it, and subterminal series of blackish spots with a whitish shade 

 before them and incurved at discal fold. 



Hai). ITatal, Durban (Gueinzius), 1 cJ type. Exp. 26 mill. 



