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postmedial line bent inwards below end of cell. Hind wing with 

 medial and postmedial lines. Both wings with marginal series of 

 black specks. 



Hob. Ceylon; E. Pegu. Exp., 3 24, % 26 millim. 





 D. Antennce of male slightly thickened and jlattened at middle. 



2874. Nodaria fusca, n. sp. 



c? . Dark fuscous. Tore wing with indistinct waved ante- and 

 postmedial lines, the latter excurved beyond cell ; a dark speck at 

 end of cell ; a submarginal series of whitish specks. Hind wing 

 paler, with pale submarginal line almost obsolete, except towards 

 anal angle, where it is bent out to the margin. 



Hab. Sikhim (Knyvett); E. Pegu (Doherty). Exp. 28 millim. 

 Type in coll. Elwes. 



Genus CATADA. 



Catada, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 209 (1858). 

 Zanclopalpus, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 127 (1893). 



Type, O. vagalis, Wlk. 



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

 Borneo; Gilolo. 



Palpi slender, sickle-shaped, and naked, the 2nd joint reaching 

 far above vertex of head and tapering to extremity, the 3rd very 

 long and slender ; antennae of male somewhat thickened and flat- 

 tened or minutely ciliated ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. 

 Fore wing with vein 7 from upper angle of cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 5 from middle of discocellulars, 6, 7 usually from cell. 



SECT. I. (Zanclopalpus). Tore wing with veins 9, 10 absent. 



2875. Catada rasalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (Q) viii, p. 67 (1891) ; Hmpsn. 



III. Het. ix. pi. 167, fig. 20. 



Pale fuscous. Fore wing suffused with darker fuscous, except 

 the medial area ; indistinct waved antemedial, postmedial, and sub- 

 marginal lines, the last with pale outer edge. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Ceylon. Exp. 18-20 millim. 



SECT. II. Fore wing with vein 9 present and stalked with 8 ; 

 10 absent. 



A. Hind wing with vein 3 present ; 6, 7 from the cell. 



2876. Catada prominens, n. sp. 



cJ . Differs from rasalis in the ground-colour being more ochreous. 

 Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; a waved black antemedial line ; 

 a speck in cell and spot at end of it, with a pale streak between 

 them ; a waved medial line bent outwards round end of cell ; a 

 sinuous submarginal line with diffused black on its inner edge ; a 



