DIGAMA.— NOTATA. 47 



LITHOSIID^. 



Digama marchalii, Guer., var. intermedia, nov. 



Expanse l^'j iudi- 



Female. Fore wing cinereous white ; two small black spots at tlie base ; aaotlier larger 

 on the costa near the base, with a small black streak below it, and a dusky blotch near the 

 inner margin ; a round black spot in the cell ; a lunulate one at the end of it ; the wiug 

 crossed by three irregular interrupted dusky bands, one a third from base, the second at end 

 of cell, curving round outside of it, the tliird submarginal ; the apical portion of the costa, 

 the outer margin, and cilia dusky. Hind wing bright yellow, with a small black streak iu 

 the centre of the outer margin. Head and thorax cinereous, Avith dusky blotches, and two 

 black spots on the collar. Abdomen yellow, with a series of black segmental spots above 

 and at each side. 



An intermediate variety between D. marchalii and D. figurata, the former of which has 

 the costal and outer areas of fore wing clouded with fuliginous, the marginal and submarginal 

 bands wanting, and all the other markings less distinct; while the latter has the markings 

 black, and so broad that they cover the greater part of the fore wing, the outer margin of 

 hind wing also has dark markings. 



Katlia hrevipennis, IValk. (Plate CXXXIX. figs. 2, 11.) 

 Lithosia brovipennis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. ii. p. 509. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Fore wing broader, and with the inner margin more lobed than iu the female 

 and of a much darker colour, a reddish ochrcous-brown ; two slight longitudinal folds below 

 first and second median nervules. Hind wing similar to that of female. The basal segments 

 of abdomen clothed with long hairs. 



Walker's type is a female. 



NOTATA, g. n. 



Palpi short, weak, and porrect ; antenuEe simple : fore wing long, narrow, and pointed 

 at apex ; costa slightly and evenly arched. Hind wing ample ; eosta nearly straight. 



Male. With a large patch of long brown scales on the underside of fore wing, filling up 

 the outer two thirds of the cellj and extending below the median vein : hind wing with a 

 patch on the upperside, similar in size and position. 



