BY Anss A. E. PROur. 475 



In the absence of the cT ^^""6 generic position of rostrilinea 

 is not quite cei'tain, especially as the small triangular tuft 

 at middle of segment 3 of palpus behind is wanting ; but 

 there is a small dark mark on the segment where the tuft 

 should come, suggesting that it is merely worn off (as often 

 happens in poor 9 of this genus) and rostrilinea appears to 

 be a Bertula, perhaps nearest to inipiiralis, (BJeptino impuraUs 

 Hmpsn., Journ. Bombay Soc, xi, p. 698, 1898, Khasias.) 



84. Nod ARIA externalis Guen. 



Nodaris externalis Guen.. Delt. et Pyral., p. 64, 1854, Coromandol 

 Coast. 



Mt. Poi, 200 feet— 1 (f . 



Very widely distributed and common. The only true 

 Nodaria known to me from the Tndo- Australian regfion, the 

 other species quoted under this name in the "Moths of 

 India" all belonging to other genera. Structurally Nodaria 

 is extreme!}^ close to Simph'ria , to which it should perhaps 

 have been placed next. It is ouite in error that Sir G. 

 Hampson describes it as havincf I^^ of the hind wing "from 

 near middle of discocellulars." 



Bleptinodes Hmpsn. 



To the description of this genus published in A. M. N. H. 

 (9) XV, p. 409, 1925, the following additions or corrections 

 are added. Palpus tvpically with segment 2 fairly well curved 

 throughout, about If --2 diameter of eye. Fore leg with 

 narrow, slender sheath covering tibia and about ^ first 

 segment of tarsus, fitting so closely as to be difficult to 

 discern. Hind wing tvpicallv with anastomosis to about 2/5 ; 

 cell nearly 2/5 leniith of wing (not "half"), with SC^ B\ 

 W, M^ shortly stalked (not "from angle"), R', M' typically 

 lonofer stalked than ST^, E^ ; W typically from not quite 

 f discocellulars. Note : the stalking varies in individual 

 specimens of perumhrosa, but is practicallv always present — 

 certainly present in the case of R^-M^ in all specimens at 

 present examined. 



Section : Segment 2 of palpus rather more weaklv curved, 

 more than twice eye; segment 3 about f length of 2, with 

 tuft behind at middle onlv. Hind M'ing with anastomosis 

 shorter Cto about J), R^--M^ very shortly sta-lked ; B^ more 

 curved than in perumhrosa, from close to angle of cell. 



