200 NOCTriD.i. 



5391. (Enoptera acidalica, n. sp. (Plate CLVI. fig. 16.) 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous irrorated with a few 

 black scales ; antennae white slightly ringed with black ; patagia 

 with orange-red patches. Fore wing yellowish white suffused with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with black : the costal edge black 

 towards base ; small black spots in cell towards extremity and on 

 discocellulars ; a faint rufous medial shade with two black points on 

 it towards costa, excurved to just beyond the cell, then oblique : a 

 faint minutely waved rufous postmedial line with small black spot 

 on it at discal fold, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; traces of a pale minutely waved subterminal line defined 

 on each side by brownish suffusion ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots. Hind wing yellowish white suffused with rufous and 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; a small black discoidal spot ; 

 traces of rufous subbasal, medial, and postmedial lines ; an in- 

 distinct pale waved subterminal line slightly defined on each side by 

 rnfous suffusion ; a terminal series of prominent black points : the 

 underside white with diffused brown medial and subterminal bands 

 and slight black discoidal lunule. 



Hab. Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole), 1 $ type. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus PSEUDCRASPEDIA. 



Type. 



Pseudcraspedia, Hnipsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 704 (189S) . punctata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint, reaching to vertex 

 of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna of male somewhat laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibia? smoothly scaled, the 

 spurs long; abdomeu with dorsal series of slight crests. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3,4 shortly stalked; 5 from just above angle ; (i from upper ancle ; 7, 

 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with the medial area white leucozona. 



B. Hind wing with the medial area not white. 



a. Fore wing with black spot on outer edge of subter- 



minal line at discal fold prosticta. 



b. Fore wing without black spot on outer edge of subter- 



minal line at discal fold. 



a\ Fore wiv.g with the postmedial line angled inwards 



to black points at discal and submedian folds punctata. 



b\ Kore wing with the postmedial line not angled in- 

 wards to black points at discal and submedian folds basipunctaria. 



5392. Pseudcraspedia leucozona, n. sp. (Plate CLVI. fig. 17.) 



c? . Palpi, frons, and antennae except at base fuscous; vertex of 

 head, tegulae, and patagia white ; dorsum of thorax and abdomen 

 fuscous mixed with some white ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen white, the fore legs fuscous in front. Fore win" 



