28 NOCTUIDJE. 



Genus CEPHENA. 

 Cephena, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 196 (1882). 



Type, C. costata, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis. 



Palpi sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint stout, clothed thickly with 

 hair and reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd long and stout ; 

 a large frontal tuft ; antennae serrate in male ; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled. Fore femora and tibiae fringed with long hair ; 

 mid and hind tibiae less hairy. Fore wing with the costa arched ; 

 the outer margin excised from apex to vein 4, where it is excurved. 

 Hind wing with the costa arched at base ; the outer margin excised 

 below apex ; vein 5 from close to lower angle of cell. 



2784. Cephena costata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 196, pi. 6, fig. 17 j C. fy S. 



no. 3019. 



J . Head ochreous white ; thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen 



fuscous, the base pale. Fore wing 

 brownish ochreous ; the costa with 

 brownish ante- and postmedial 

 patches irrorated with black; a 

 rufous fascia from centre of cell to 

 outer margin below apex, with a 

 pure white streak on it in cell and 

 speck at end of it ; a black speck 



Fig. II. Cephena costata, rf . \. on inner margin before outer angle. 



Hind wing fuscous ; underside with 



the basal area ochreous white, the outer area fuscous. 

 Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 46 millim. 



Genus AVITTA. 



Avitta, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1674 (1858). 



Asta, Wlk. Joum. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 170 (1864). 



Type, A. subsignans, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; 

 Borneo; Gilolo. 



Palpi sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 

 3rd long and naked ; antennae long, and ciliated in male ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; femora and tibiae fringed with hair. 

 Fore wing with the apex somewhat rounded. Hind wing with 

 vein 5 from just above lower angle of cell. 



2785. Avitta subsignans, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1675 ; Hmpm. III. Het. 



i.\, pi. 107, fig. 7; C. $ S. no. 3013. 



Avitta fasciosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 194, pi. 6, fig. 26 ; C. $ S. 

 no. 3011. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing very dark reddish brown ; the last 



