414 PYEALID^. 



Genus PROTRIGONIA, nov. 



Type, P. zizanialis, Swinb. 



Range. Bombay; Ceylon. 



Palpi porrect, projecting about the length of head, clothed with 

 hair and downcurved at extremity, 3rd joint hidden; maxillary 

 palpi with a pointed tuft at extremity ; frons rounded ; antennae 

 of male somewhat thickened and flattened ; tibiae with the spurs 

 nearly equal. Pore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind 

 wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; vein 3 from 

 before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anasto- 

 mosing with 8. 



5182. Protrigonia zizanialis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 865, pi. 57, 



fig. 12 ; C.$ S. no. 4472. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; palpi blackish, white 



below ; abdomen with dark bands. 

 Fore wing grey thickly mottled 

 with brown ; a black streak at base 

 of costa ; an inwardly oblique 

 black antemedial line ; an elongate 

 discocellular ring -spot; a dark 

 F . 226 submarginal line excurved from 



Protrigonia zizanitiis, 3. \. costa to vein 3; the margin 



fuscous; a fine marginal black 



line. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous on outer area ; a 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hob. Bombay ; Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus NOORDA. 

 Noorda, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 978 (1859). 



Type, N. Uitealis, Wlk. 



Range. ~W. Africa ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Andamans. 



Palpi porrect, the 3rd joint long and rostriform ; maxillary palpi 

 clothed with hair produced to a point in front ; frons rounded ; 

 tibiae with the outer spurs about half the length of the inner. 

 Fore wing narrow, the apex rectangular; the outer margin erect; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle. Hind wing 

 with veins 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male almost simple. 



5183. Noorda blitealis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 979 ; C.&S. no. 4227. 

 Scopula subjectalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1472. 



Dark fuscous ; abdomen with lateral metallic-blue and black 

 patches on segments 3 to 8. Fore wing with white patch on 



