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4632. Eristena postalbalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 175, pi. 174, fig. 3. 



2 . White, the palpi and a spot behind collar fuscous ; abdomen 

 with pale fuscous bands. Pore wing with the basal half of costa 

 and patches of the inner area suffused with fuscous ; a black speck 

 on costa just beyond the middle, with a sinuous fuscous line 



arising just beyond it and met 

 at inner margin by a sinuous 

 postmedial line ; a yellow patch 

 beyond the cell between the 

 two lines ; a sinuous sub- 

 marginal fuscous band with 



a y ellow Pf tch on it below 

 costa ; a yellow marginal baud 

 tapering and becoming fuscous towards outer angle, a black line 

 on its inner edge and some black marginal specks towards apex. 

 Hind wing with traces of oblique fuscous antemedial line from 

 cell to inner margin ; a large black discocellular spot ; an indistinct 

 postmedial line curved from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 excurved again; an indistinct sinuous submarginal band, broad 

 towards costa ; a waved line near margin, with three marginal 

 black specks beyond it and an indistinct marginal fuscous line. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



4633. Eristena murinalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 150. 



c? . Silky grey-brown. Hind wing with the basal two-thirds 

 whitish ; a discocellular speck and fine dark postmedial line ; both 

 wings with a dark line through the cilia. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus NYMPHULA. 



Nymphula, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, pt. 2, p. 162 (1802). 

 Parapoynx, Hubn. Verz. p. 362 (P 1818). 

 Hydrocampa, Lair. Fam. Nat. p. 478 (1825). 



Type, N. nymphceata, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair in 

 front and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and 

 acuminate ; maxillary palpi long and dilated with scales at 

 extremity, frons rounded ; antenna aunulated ; legs long, the 

 tibiaB smooth, with the spurs almost equal. Fore wing with 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 

 8, 9, 10 *. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8 very strongly. 



* In some specimens of N. nymphceata, responsalis, and affinialis, vein 10 

 arises from the cell, though in the large majority of specimens stalked with 

 8,9. 



