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specks on costa towards apex. Hind wing with the basal area 

 deep purplish fuscous ; a dark speck at end of cell ; waved medial 

 and postmedial lines, the area between them fulvous ; a submar- 

 ginal series of pale specks ; both wings with a marginal series of 

 black lunules. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus NAGADEBA. 

 Nagadeba, Wtk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1521 (1865). 



Type, N. indecoralis, "Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Andamans ; 

 Java. 



Palpi very long and slender, the 2nd joint reaching far above 

 vertex of head, the 3rd long with a tuft of hair on the inner side ; 

 antennaB minutely ciliated ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 

 tibiae naked. Fore wing with the apex acute ; the outer margin 

 angled at middle. Hind wing with the outer margin produced 

 to points at veins 4 and 7 ; the cilia crenulate ; vein 5 from 

 middle of discocellulars. 



2842. Nagadeba indecoralis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1521 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 174, fi<?. 3 ; C. $ S. no. 2754. 

 Nagadeba ianthina, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 255. 



Very dark red-brown, suffused with purplish ; the wings irro- 



rated with white. Fore wing 

 w ^ ^ races * sinuous angled 

 anternedial and medial lines ; 

 & postmedial whitish line very 

 much bent outwards beyond 



tne cel1 ; traces of a white 

 submarginal line ; a marginal 



Fig. 26. Nagadeba indecoralis, $ . f. fulvous line. Hind wing with 



sinuous postmedial white line 



with diffused white on each side of it ; traces of a crenulate 



white submarginal line ; a fulvous marginal line. Underside more 



highly coloured. 



Nab. Nilgiris; Ceylon; Burma; Java. Exp. 24 millim. 



2843. Nagadeba castanealis, n. sp. 



Differs from indecoralis in being much redder. Fore wing less 

 suffused with blue-grey ; a distinct waved antemedial line ; a 

 curved medial line; the postmedial line less bent out beyond cell. 

 Hind wing with the pale line medial, and with a dark line beyond 

 it ; no crenulate submarginal line. 



//<il>. Sikhim (Elwes) ; Sdgas (Doherty). Bay, 28 millim. Type 

 in B. M. 



