398 



NOCTUID^E. 



patch. Hind wing dark fuscous. Underside with cell-spot and 

 postmedial line to each wing. 



Fig. 220. Cymatophoropsis sinuata, $ . }. 



The form sinuata has the collar and patches of fore wing 

 suffused with brown, which in confluens are white. 

 Hab. Simla ; Sikhiin. Exp., 3 34, $ 40 imllim. 



Genus RISOBA. 



Risoba, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 328. 

 Pitrasa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 94 (1882). 



Type, R. repugnans, Wlk. 



Range. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; 

 Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, and reaching vertex of head ; antennae almost 

 as long as fore wing, with fasciculated cilia in male ; thorax and 

 abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter long ; tibia? smooth and 

 without spines. Fore wing without raised tufts ; the apex rect- 

 angular; the cilia non-crenulate ; the retiuaculum of male bar- 

 shaped ; and the claspers large and elongate. 



2277. Eisoba repugnans, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 9; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 144, fig. 1 ; C.$S. no. 1039. 



Head brown ; thorax and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing 



brownish grey ; a basal white 

 patch slightly suffused with 

 bright rufous ; indistinct waved 

 antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal lines ; the orbicular a 

 speck ; the reniform white, with 

 rufous centre and edge ; a large 

 apical rufous patch with whitish 

 lunule on its inner side ; some 

 rufous patches with white edges 

 on outer part of inner margin ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing white, with the outer area fuscous ; underside with cell- 

 spot. 



Hal. " ]N". India" ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



2278. Risoba obstmcta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 328 ; id. Lep. Ceyl 



iii, pi. 144, figs. 2, 2 a, b (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 1637. 

 Risoba vialis, Lep. Atk. p. 91, pi. 4 ; fig. 1 ; C. $ S. no. 1640. 



