236 Colonel Charles Swinhoe on the 



curved brown baud of thick Hues, bent inwards from the hinder 

 margin one-third from the base, then curving outwardly and above 

 and in on to the costa at one-fourth from the base ; a fine sinuated 

 nearly upright central line, a fine dentated discal line curving 

 somewhat like the baud, outwardly margined with pale pinkish 

 white ; a submarginal lunular line with white points, well sepa- 

 rated from the margin, and outside of it at the apex is a large 

 brown patch; marginal points black; fringe pale pinkish white, 

 with some brown longitudinal streaks ; a fine luuule at the end of 

 the cell with a spot behind it. Hind wing white, brownish grey 

 towards the apical border. Expanse of wings, 9.7-lOths in. 



Eangoon, July, 1888. In coll. Swinhoe. 



In the shape of its wings it is somewhat similar to 

 Selepa vitea, Swinhoe, but in coloration and markings 

 quite distinct from all other described species of this 

 genus. 



375. Selepa celtis. 



Selepa celtis, Moore, Cat. E. Lep. I. C, ii., p. 353, 



pi. 9a, f. 9, and pi. 16, f. 8, 8 a, larva (1859). 

 Siihrita curriferella, Walker, xxxv., p. 1745 (1866). 

 Eangoon. In Phayre Museum, Kangoon. 



376. Selepa vitea. 



Selepa vitea, Swinhoe, P. Z. S., 1885, p. 460, pi. 27, 

 f. 17. 



Eangoon. In coll. Swinhoe. 



All the insects of this genus have three free veins in 

 the hind wing like a Pyrale, but otherwise they are true 

 Noctuids, and the larva is that of a Hypogrammid. 



377. Symitha punctata, n. sp. (PI. VII., fig. 15). 

 Antennae brown ; general coloration pale pinkish grey, irrorated 

 with chocolate-brown ; tips of palpi whitish. Fore wing with the 

 irrorations in parts rather dense, forming indistinct incomplete 

 transverse shades, spots black, one or two on the thorax, one at the 

 base of fore wing, three in a rowsubbasal, first on the costa, second 

 below near it, third in the interno-median area one-third from 

 base, another in the centre above the submedian vein; a sub- 

 marginal and a marginal row of spots, one or two of them at the 

 apex, forming short streaks. Hind wing whitish on the costa, 

 brownish towards the exterior border ; fringe of both wings inter- 

 lined. Expanse of wings, ^"j iu. 



