40 NOCTTJID.E. 



Genus ENISPA. 



Type. 



Enispa, Wlk. xxxiv. 1275(1865) eosanalis. 



Micrteschus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 402 (1878) elataria. 



Trogacontia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 520 (1896) alblfrontaia. 



Proboscis aborted, small or absent : palpi upturned, reaching about to middle 

 of frons, slender and smoothly scaled, the 3rd joint short ; Irons smooth ; eves 

 large, round ; antennae of male with long cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales 

 and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 typically non-crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7, 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Both wings with the termen creuulate and excurved at veins 5 and 3. 



5031. Enispa purpurea, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen oehreous suffused with purple 

 and irrorated with black- brown; palpi in front, pectus, mid and 

 hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white. Fore 

 wing purple thickly irrorated with blackish ; a slight blackish 

 subbasal line from costa to vein 1, angled outwards below cost a 

 and incurved below the cell ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 waved; a black discoidal bar, constricted at middle; postmedial 

 line double filled in with purple and some pale yellow, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 3 and 



Fig. 18. — Enispa purpurea, <$ . 



angled inwards in submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on 

 cGsta ; subterminal line double filled in with purple and some pale 

 yellow, minutely waved, incurved below vein 2 ; a fine waved 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia blackish mixed with yellow and with 

 yellow line at base. Hind wing purple thickly irrorated with 

 blackish ; a diffused black discoidal spot ; postmedial line pale 

 yellow, dentate, with a small quadrate yellow spot beyond the 

 cell ; subterminal line double, brown filled in with yellowish, 

 slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then very minutely waved ; 

 a black patch at apex ; cilia yellowish while mixed with black and 

 with waved yellow line at base ; the underside with the basal 

 area brown, a broad diffused whitish medial band, the terminal area 

 fuscous leaving some whitish on termen. 



Hab. Singapore {Ridley), 1 £ type. Exp. 20 millira. 



