08 NOCTUIM5. 



wing fuscous black mixed with some grey ; an indistinct minutely 

 waved black medial line ; postmedial line diffused, black, angled 

 outwards at middle ; a black terminal line ; the underside grey 

 irrorated and suffused with fuscous, an indistinct diffused sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the white markings on costal area 

 towards apex. 



Hah. Ceylon, Maskeliya (Alston), 2 rf type. Exp.. 12-24 

 millim. 



*5078. Eublemma falcatalis. (Plate CL. fig. 22.) 



Corgatka falcatalis, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 348 (1894). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown ; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen with some grey. Fore wing dark 

 reddish brown slightly tinged with grey ; an indistinct waved dark 

 antemedial line ; medial line blackish, somewhat diffused, angled 

 outwards below costa and oblique below the cell ; postmedial Hue 

 dark, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of a slightly waved subterminal 

 line, incurved at discal fold, excurved at middle, then incurved and 

 with dark suffusion before it; cilia deep rufous. Hind wing dark 

 reddish brown slightly tinged with grey ; a diffused dark antemedial 

 shade ; postmedial line dark, minutely waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 4 ; the terminal area and cilia darker ; the underside grey 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown, a blackish discoidal spot, 

 indistinct double minutely waved postmedial line, and irregularly 

 waved subterminal line. 



Hah. Sikhim (Moller), type t 5 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Sect. IV. (Silda). Fore wing with the termen strongly excurved at middle and 

 excised below apex and towards tornus ; hind wing with the 

 termen slightly excised below vein 7, the cell about one-third length 

 of wing and veins 3, 4 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing with the costal area suffused with rufous towards 



apex trim ratal is. 



B. Fore wing without rufous suffusion rubricilia. 



5079. Eublemma truncatalis. 

 Silda truncatalis, Wlk. xxvii. 131 (1863). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey tinged with rufous ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen greyer, the tarsi rufous 

 ringed with grey. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with rufous on 

 costal area beyond postmedial line and slightly irrorated with 

 brown ; a slight oblique dark subbasal striga ; antemedial line 

 rufous towards costa, then slight, dark, excurved below the cell and 

 incurved at vein 1 ; a black point in middle of cell and fuscous 

 discoidal spot; medial line rufous, oblique from costa to beyond 

 the cell where it is excurved, then inwardly oblique, traces of a 



