360 NOCTUID^E. 



silvery sinuous line beyond the cell, with silvery suffusion between 

 it and the discocellulars ; traces of a curved subrnarginal line. 

 Hind wing fuscous. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 34 milliin. 



Genus NAGASENA. 

 Nagasena, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 151 (1882). 



Type, N. albescens, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim ; Assam ; Ceylon ; Andamans. 



Palpi slender and naked, the 3rd joint reaching above vertex of 

 head ; antenna with long cilia in male ; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled, except for a slight tuft on 1st segment of latter; 

 tibiae moderately hairy. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 rounded ; the inner margin lobed near base ; the retinaculum bar- 

 shaped in male. Hind wing with vein 5 from lower angle of 

 cell. 



2181. Nagasena albescens, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 152 ; C.fyS. no. 2152. 



Head and collar white ; thorax 

 and abdomen brownish. Fore 

 wing whitish, suffused and ir- 

 rorated with brown ; a minute 

 rufous speck at upper angle of 

 cell ; a curved rufous line from 

 Fig. 193. apex to inner margin near base ; 



Nagasena albescens, $ . }, traceg of a submargina l series of 



specks. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Margharita, Assam. Eocp. 30 millim. 



2182. Nagasena dentilinealis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 613, pi. 60, 

 fig. 7 ; C.8f 8. no. 2871. 



c? . Differs from albescens in being whiter ; a dark speck at end of 

 cell of fore wing; the line from apex brown, waved, and reaching 

 centre of inner margin. Hind wing fuscous. 



Hob. Andamans. Eocp. 28 millim. 



2183. Nagasena trapezata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 547. 



$ . Pale brownish ochreous. Fore wing with very oblique 

 antemedial brown line ; an obliquely curved medial line, sending a 

 streak from end of cell to outer margin below apex, crossing an 

 angulated submarginal line. Hind wing semihyaline, slightly 

 suffused with fuscous towards outer margin. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



