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mark twice the size : hindwing with the outer line also ending nearer the anal ano-le, 

 and the spot at end of cell larger and lobiform. 



Genus NAGADEBA. 

 Nagadeba, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1521 (186.5). 

 Forewing elongated, costa slightly arched at the base, apex very acute, exterior 

 margin convex, scalloped, angular in the middle, posterior margin long ; cell extend- 

 ing to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, 

 second at one-fourth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell and joined to base of the third 

 by a short spur ; discocellular inwardly oblique, radials from near each end ; middle 

 median from close to end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end ; sub- 

 median nearly straight : hindwing rather long, exterior margin oblique, scalloped ; 

 cell extending to one-third the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellular inwardly oblique, radial from near the middle ; two upper medians from end 

 of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body slender ; palpi curving upward in front, very long and slender, 

 squamose, second joint pilose above in the male, third joint lanceolate, two-thirds 

 the length of second, tufted in the middle in the male ; antennge minutely ciliated, 

 with a few fine longer lashes ; legs slender, long ; spurs long. 



NAGADEBA INDECORALIS (Plate 174, Fig. 3). 

 Nagadeba indecoralis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1521 (1865), ?. 

 Male and female. Violaceous-brown ; sparsely speckled with minute greyi.sh- 

 white scales: forewing crossed by a slender undulated subbasal and an outward- 

 curved discal greyish-white speckled line; the outer border traversed by similar 

 speckled sinuous hues, and with a cluster of speckles on the costa before the apex ; 

 each of the lines ending prominently on the costa: hindwing with a transverse 

 waved discal slender greyish-white speckled line, followed by outer sinuous lines. 

 Body, palpi, and legs grey speckled ; abdomen with slender greyish-white segmental 

 bands; tarsi with grey bands. 

 Expanse, S y^, 2 tti inch. 



Genus D AX ATA. 

 Daxata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1108 (186.3). 

 Forewing elongated, apex hardly acute, exterior margin convex, sinuous, pos- 

 terior mai'gin long ; cell extending to more than half the length : first subcostal 

 emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fourth, trifid, third at one- 

 sixth from base of second, and fourth at one-half from base of third ; fifth from end 

 of the cell and very slightly touching third near its base; discocellular slender, 

 almost erect, slightly bent near each end, radials from the angles ; middle median at 



