198 PYBALID^E. 



Cataclysta bombayensis, C. fy S. no. 4417. 



Cataclysta cuneifera, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. in, p. 300, pi. 179, fig. 14 j. 



C. $ S. no. 4418. 



Cataclysta junctalis, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii, p. 140, pi. 155, fig. 24. 

 Cataclysta nigri tails, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 178, pi. 174, fig. 5. 



Fulvous yellow; thorax suffused with fuscous. Fore wing 

 fulvous yellow with the base fuscous and silvery, its outer edge 

 oblique ; a large conical medial patch with its apex on costa, 

 whitish, thickly irrorated with brown and edged by silvery white 

 lines ; an oblique triangular silvery postmedial mark from costa to 



vein 5, sometimes white ; 

 a similar submarginal 

 band from costa to vein 

 2, and an oblique silvery 

 streak above outer angle. 

 Hind wing with the 

 base fuscous and silvery, 

 Fig. 116. Cataclysta Uandialis, <$. . followed by a fulvous 



yellow band ending at 



anal angle ; the rest of the wing white, thickly irrorated with 

 brown scales; a more or less prominent black-edged yellow 

 discocellular spot ; a yellow and orange marginal band inwardly 

 edged by a sinuous brown line and with four large black spots on 

 it centred with metallic blue. 



The form patnalis is small ; the head, thorax, and abdomen grey 

 or suffused with grey, wings paler ; the whitish areas less suffused 

 with brown ; fore wing with the basal grey and silvery area 

 conjoined along the costa to the medial patch ; hind wing with the 

 apical marginal spot formed of two conjoined spots with separate 

 blue centres. 



Nigritalis has the head, thorax, abdomen, and grey areas of the 

 wing suffused with smoky black. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Calcutta ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Borneo ; 

 Amboina. Exp. (patnalis) 12-16, (blandialis) 16-20 millim. 



Genus SYMPHONIA, nov. 



Type, S. multipictalis, Hmpsn. 



Ranye. Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 2nd 

 joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd with a small 

 triangular tuft; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; 

 antennae of male thickened and flattened ; tibiae with the outer 

 spurs half the length of inner, male with the claspers elongate. 

 Fore wing with the outer margin slightly angled at middle, veins 

 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 straight and well 

 separated from 8, 9, 10 ; 11 free. Hind wing with the outer 

 margin slightly angled at middle ; the cell more than half the 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle. 



