54 noctuid.t;. 



5055. Enispa atricincta. (Plate CL. fig. 8.) 

 Micrceschus atricincta, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 651 (1907). 



Head and tegula? brown, the vertex of head and shaft of antenna? 

 towards base white ; thorax and abdomen pale purplish pink ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous white. Fore 

 wing pale purplish pink mixed with whitish, the costa and termen 

 blackish ; traces of an inwardly oblique antemedial line with dark 

 points on the veins; a dark discoidal bar; postmedial line puncti- 

 form, oblique from costa to discal fold, then incurved, an indistinct 

 whitish subterminal line defined on inner side by dark scales and 

 with dark patch before it at costa with some whito points on it, 

 somewhat dentate, excurved at middle ; cilia orange-yellow. Hind 

 wing pale purplish piuk mixed with whitish ; a slight blackish dis- 

 coidal bar; postmedial line defined on outer side by whitish and 

 with some black points on it towards inner margin, excurved below 

 costa and at middle ; a terminal black band ; cilia orange-yellow ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with browu, a slight discoidal spot 

 and diffused curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Cethox, Maskeliya (Pole, de Mowbray), 1 6 , 2 $ . type. 

 Exj). 16 millim. 



5050. Enispa ohlataria. 



Hijria ohlataria, Wlk. xxii. 065 (1861); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 449, 



pi. 200. f. 6 ; Ilmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 352. 

 Homod.es violacea, Lucas, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) viii. p. 144(1893). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; vertex of head and shaft of 

 antennae towards base pure white ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing rufous irrorated with a few 

 black scales, the costa and termen blackish with a silvery gloss: 

 antemedial line slight, dark, defined on inner side by whitish, 

 inwardly oblique ; a black discoidal point ; postmedial line slight, 



Fig. 24. — Enispa oblaiaria, $ ■ %■ 



dark, defined on outer side by whitish, oblique from costa to vein 6, 

 incurved and minutely waved below vein 4, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, waved, somewhat 

 excurved at middle ; cilia yellowish tinged with red. Hind wing 

 rufous irrorated with a few dark scales ; a faint dark discoidal spot 

 and whitish postmedial line excurved at middle ; faint traces of a 



