TEGULATA.— NISHADA. 31 



Genus TEGULATA, Jf'alker. 

 Teijidata, Walker, Journ. Liuu. Soc. Zool. vi. \). 110. 



Tegulata BASISTRIGA. 

 Tegulata basistriga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. '.I'Z, pi. ii. fig. 5. 



Female. Upperside pale luteous-brown ; fore wiiijj; brightest at tlie apex, sliglitly 

 bro\vn-spcckled ; a black streak along base of costal edge and along base of posterior 

 margin : hind wing [)ale brownish fawn-colour externally. Underside darker ; legs brown 

 above. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Ilab. Ceylon. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Tegulata trotuberans. 

 Tegulata proluberans, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 23, pi. ii. fig. 6. 



Female. Upperside pale luteous-brown : fore wing with numerous brown speckles and 

 a dark brown prominent costal spot : hind w'ing and abdomen pale luteous-yellow. Under- 

 side paler ; middle of fore wing brownish. 



Expanse l-^-^ inch. 



Ilab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Genus NISHADA, Muore. 

 Nishada, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 23. 



Male and female. Fore wing somewliat short, broad ; costa considerably arched; apex 

 very acute ; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex, posterior margin short, in the male 

 convex and fringed to near the base ; subcostal vein live-branched, first branch arising at 

 half length of the cell and slightly touching the costal vein, second at one-third before end 

 of the cell, third at some distance beyond tlie ci'll, fourth bitid at half its length; cell nar- 

 row ; discoceUulars very slender, upper sliort, lower obliquely curveil in\\ard ; radial starting 

 from lower end of upper discoccUular ; mcHlian vein three-branched, the two upper at nearly 

 half distance beyond end of cell, lower before its end ; submedian vein recurved upward.-^ 

 from the base. Hind wing in the male very short and broad, somewhat quadrate ; anterior 

 margin produced upward from the base and folded over on to the underside, and there pro- 

 vided with a long recumbent fan-like plumose covering or appendage ; the hind wing in the 

 female is longer, being of the same length as posterior margin of fore wing, its anterior 

 margin is nearly straight and is without the folded plumose appendage ; costal vein follow- 

 ing the anterior margin beneath the fold in the male ; subcostal vein two-branched, the 



