50 NOCTUID/E. 



5045. Enispa erythroglauca, n. sp. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 32.) 



2 . Head and thorax pale olive-grey, the hasal half of autennae 

 and a bar between them pure white ; abdomen blood-red with some 

 grey at base and extremity; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white, the tibia? and tarsi tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 pale olive, suffused with deep blood-red except at base and on costal 

 and terminal areas; a subbasal black point on costa ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, deep red with a black point at costa below which it 

 is excurved ; a small deep red discoidal spot ; post-medial line deep 

 red, very slightly defined on outer side by whitish and with black 

 point at costa, oblique to vein 6, excurved to vein 4, then incurved 

 and slightly excurved at vein 1, some white points with minute red 

 streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish 

 minutely waved and slightly excurved at middle ; cilia yellowish. 

 Hind wing deep blood-red slightly irrorated with silvery 

 white, the costal area white towards base ; a diffused white 

 antemedial band ; a deep red discoidal spot ; a sinuous white 

 postmediai line excurved at middle ; termen and cilia yellowish ; 

 the underside white slightly irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal 

 lunule, curved postmediai line slightly incurved at discal fold, the 

 terminal area suffused with black with a whitish subterminal line 

 interrupted at middle. 



Nab. Madeas, Horsleykonda {Campbell), 1 5 type. Exp. 14 

 millim. 



Larva. Pale greenish ; no ventral claspers. Feeds on a minute 

 Lichen and covers itself with fragments of this stuck on to a fairly 

 tough pent-roof web. 



Cocoon. In the form of a small Lichen-covered ball suspended by 

 a fine thread : 4. ( W. N. Campbell.) 



5046. Enispa minuta. 



Hyria minuta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 150, pi. 109. f. 18 (1893) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 353. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale purplish red, the vertex of 

 head and shaft of antennce white ; legs whitish. Fore wing pale 

 purplish red with a silky <>loss, the costal area paler ; antemedial 

 and medial black points on costa, the latter with a slight oblique 

 dark striga from it; postmediai line with black point on costa, 

 slight and oblique to vein G, then reduced to faint points ; the 

 apical part of costa with series of slight black points ; a fine blood- 

 red terminal line ; cilia yellowish. Hind wing pale purplish red 

 with a silvery gloss : a blood-red discoidal bar ; a waved yellowish 

 white medial line ; a fine blood-red terminal line ; cilia yellowish ; 

 the underside paler. 



Hub. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 rf type. Exp. 14 millim. 



