64 NOCTUID^. 



C. Mid leys of male with a tuft of long Juiir from femoro-tibial joint. 



2885. Catada albolineata, n. sp. 



Dark red- brown ; palpi with the base of 3rd joint white. Fore 

 wing with a pure white obliquely waved medial line ; a straight 

 submarginal ochreous line ; some white specks on costa towards 

 apex ; both wings with a series of ochreous cilial specks. 



Hah. Simla (Harford) ; Sikhim (Moller). E.rp. 25 millim. Type, 

 rf iu coll. Elwes, $ in B. M. 



2886. Catada nigribasis, Swinh. MS. 



rf . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey-brown ; palpi 

 black. Fore wing purplish grey-brown, with a large jet-black 

 basal patch with oblique outer edge ; a dark speck at end of cell ; 

 the costal area darker towards apex ; a sinuous white submarginal 

 line. Hind wing fuscous. Abdomen long. (Mid legs wanting.) 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus ARJEOPTERUM. 

 Araeopterou, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 136 (1893). 



Type, A. pictale, Hmpsn. 



liange. Ceylon. 



Palpi slender and sickle-shaped, reaching just above vertex of 

 head ; antennaB almost simple ; thorax and abdomen smoothly 

 scaled ; tibiae naked. Fore wing rather long and narrow ; the 

 apex rounded ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 6 from below angle of cell ; 7 

 from angle; 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 

 6, 7 stalked ; 5 from middle of discocellulars. 



2887. Araeopterum pictale, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 137, pi. 168, fig. 19. 



c? . Head and thorax purplish white ; palpi black ; abdomen 



fulvous. Fore wing purplish white, 

 irrorated with fuscous ; fuscous 

 specks on costa and suffusion on 

 disk, below apex, and at outer 

 angle ; yellow specks in and at 

 end of cell ; a series of dark mar- 

 Fig. 30. ginal specks. Hind wing with 

 Araopterum pictale, rf. }. tne fiscal area fulvous ; a dark 

 subbasal line and lunule on discocellulars ; the apex fuscous ; a 

 marginal series of dark specks. 

 llnl. Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus NIACCABA. 

 Niaccnba, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1:272 (18G5). 



Type, N. sumplualis, "NVlk. 



llitii'ji. Ceylon. 



Palpi sickle-shaped, slender, and reaching above vertex of head, 



