336 NOCTUIDJE. 



marginal prominent series. Hind wing with the inner half fuscous 

 brown ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 28 millim. 



2106. Rivula ochracea, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 197 ; C. fy S. no. 3036. 

 Rivula biatomea, Butl. 111. Het. vii, p. 17 (nee Moore}. 



2 . Bright straw-yellow. Fore wing with two black specks at 

 end of cell ; a marginal series of minute specks. Hind wing 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Calcutta. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus TATHODELTA. 



Tathodelta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, p. 135 (1893). 



Type, T. purpurascens, Hmpsn. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint thickly 

 scaled, the 3rd minute ; antenna3 of male with long fasciculated 

 cilia ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter long with 

 large anal tuft in male. Fore wing with the apex rounded ; veins 

 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



2107. Tathodelta purpurascens, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 135, pi. 168, 



fig. 15. 



d . Head and collar chestnut ; thorax greyish fuscous ; abdomen 

 brown. Fore wing brown, suffused with grey; traces of an ante- 

 medial waved line ; two black specks at end of cell ; a postmedial 



Fig. 179. Tathodelta purpurascens, 



line excurved round cell ; traces of an irregular sub marginal line ; 

 a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing fuscous. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus CINGALESA, nov. 



Type, 0. strigicosta, Hmpsn. 



Range. Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 

 3rd minute ; thorax and abdomen without tufts. Fore wing 

 with vein 6 absent ; 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 and 6, 7 stalked. 



