234 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



over the head, comjjrcssecl, squamose, sHghtly pilose on its upper edge, second 

 joint reaching level of the vertex, broadest at its lower end, third joint lanceolate, 

 two-thirds the length of second ; antennas in male setose, pubescent, incrassated and 

 slightly tufted at one-third its length ; legs stout ; forelegs and middle femora laxly 

 fringed, fore tibite densely clothed with short adpressed hairs; middle and hind tibi^ 

 laxly pilose, spurs long, slender. 

 Tijpe, A. circumscripta. 



AGINNA ROBUSTALIS (Plate 177, Fig 1, la, ^,?). 



Senninia rohustalis, Guunee, Deltoides et Pyralites, p. 58 (1854) ^J. 

 Bocana turpatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 174 (1858), ^ , ? . 



Male and female. Palo ochreous-brown, brightest at the base in the male : 

 forewing with a very indistinct transverse slightly- waved antemedial blackish line, and 

 a recurved postmedial denticulated blackish line, followed by a brownish inner- 

 bordered pale ochreous-white nearly straight oblique submarginal line, and a marginal 

 row of blackish points ; a blackish reniform mark at end of the cell : hindwing with 

 faint traces of a paler discal line ; a submarginal brownish-bordered ochreous-white 

 line, which is slightly angular near each end, the lower angle almost touching the 

 exterior margin; marginal points indistinct. Antennte, palpi, and forelegs dark 

 brown. 



Expanse, <? If, ? lyV inch. 



Genus NABARTHA. 



Closely allied to Aglnna. Male : forewing comparatively longer and narrower, 

 apex rounded, the exterior margin more oblique and not convex ; venation similar, 

 except that in the forewing the second subcostal is emitted at one-sixth before end 

 of the cell, and the fifth touching the third at its base ; two upper medians from end 

 of the cell : hindwings more quadrate in shape, the exterior margin being straighter 

 and more oblique below the apex, and the lower angle more prominent. Palpi some- 

 what larger, more slender ; legs longer, less pilose ; tarsi also longer ; antennge 

 minutely ciliated in male, setose in female. 



Type, N. Schaldusalis {Bocana Schaldusalis, Walker). 



NABARTHA MARGINATA (Plate 177, Fig. 2). 

 Male and female. Pale violaceous ochreous-brown : forewing with a very 

 indistinct brown-speckled zigzag transverse antemedial and postmedial line, and a 

 submarginal broad violaceous-brown fascia ; the outer edge of the fascia is obliquely 

 straight and sharply defined ; the outer margin of the wing being pale greyish- 

 ochreous ; a small brown spot at end of the cell : hindwing with a similar violaceous- 

 brown submarginal fascia, and pale outer margin ; the fascia angulated below the 



