194 M (II ID.E. 



Genus DECTICRYPTIS, nov. 



T\pe, D. deleta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, very slender and hardly reaching 

 middle of frons which is smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated, 

 with tuft of scales from basal joint ; thorax clothed with hair and scales n ixed 

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

 crests. Fore wing with the apex produced and acute, the tertnen excised to 

 vein 4 where it is angled, then oblique to tornus, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; (i from below upper angle ; 7. 8 stalked, 9 absent : 10, 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with the costa slightly excised beyond middle : the 

 apex produced and acute, the termen excised below apex ; reins 3, 4 stalked ; 

 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5302. Decticryptis deleta. 



Niaccaba delefa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 304, pi. 107. f. 13 (1885) 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. ol7. 



Head and tegula? pure white ; palpi, frons, and antenna? except 

 at base brownish ocbreous, the palpi brownish at tips ; thorax and 

 abdomen brownish ocbreous, the fore tibia? brown in front. Fore 

 wing white, suffused with brownish ochreous ; a brownish subbasal 

 shade from cell to inner margin with a black point on it above 

 inner margin ; a curved slightly sinuous antemedial brownish 

 line diffused on outer side : a black point in middle of cell ; a faint 

 whitish discoidal bar ; postmedial line white, defined on inner side 

 by brownish suffusion, oblique from costa to discal fold near termen 



Fig. 40. — Decticryptis deleta, J- ?• 



where there is some rufous before it, then strongly incurved to 

 inner margin ; a white line just before termen, excurved at middle, 

 then bent inwards and oblique to tornus; some blackish on termen 

 from below apex to the angle at vein 4. Hind wing white, the 

 costal half and inner margin suffused with brownish ochreous ; a 

 brown medial line interrupted in submedian interspace ; two black 

 discoidal points, sometimes connected and forming a bar ; a curved 

 brown postmedial line interrupted in submedian interspace, defined 

 by white on outer side ; a white subterminal line excurved below 

 costa and ending at vein 2, defined on inner side by reddish brown : 

 the underside white with sinuous brown medial line, discoidal 

 striga, curved postmedial line from costa to vein 4 and subterminal 

 band from costa to vein 4. 



Ab. 1. Wings white with the markings obsolescent. 





