114 NOCTUID^. 



indistinct, slightly waved and irregular, inwardly-oblique bi'own lines. Hind wing fuscous. 

 Underside : fore wing grey, with indistinct postmedial and suhmarginal lines, a red-brown 

 patch on the outer margin below the apex, and series of white marginal specks ;'hind wing 

 whitish, irrorated with red-brown scales ; a cell-spot, denticulate postmedial, and waved 

 submarginal red-brown lines and lunulate submarginal line, 



Egnasia nubifascia. (Plate CLXV. fig. 9.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Female. Head and collar chestaiit-brown ; thorax and abdomen clothed with chestnut 

 and blackish scales. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; the basal half clouded with dark brown, 

 and with traces of antemedial and medial dark lines ; a white circulai- spot in the centre of 

 the cell, and a lunulate oue at the end of it ; a lunulate postmedial dark line ; a broad dark 

 brown submarginal band, Avith a lunvilate line beyond it ; a marginal dark line and patch at 

 centre of outer margin. Hind wing similar to the fore wing, except that the lunulate white 

 spot is absent, and the medial and outer oclireous areas are more clouded with brown. 



Egnasia ceylonica, JVlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 9.) 

 Thermesia ceylonica, Wile. Cat. sxxiii. p. 1061. 



Expanse \{ inch. 



Female. Pale vinous brown ; palpi mostly suffused with fuscous. Wings irrorated with 

 fuscous; an oblique dark line from the apex of fore \\iug to centre of inner margin of hind 

 wing, difiused at the apex; traces of a waved submarginal line; fore wing with some pale 

 costal specks towards apex. Tarsi pale-ringed. 



Rhesala palpalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXV. fig. 19.) 

 Ecregma? palpalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv. ji. IISO. 



Expanse f inch. 



Male. Cinereous fuscous 1)rown ; palpi with a fiery red stripe at sides. Fore wing with 

 indistinct waved ante- and postmedial pale lines, the latter cxcurved beyond the cell ; a black 

 spot on discocellulars ; traces of a submarginal waved line. Hind wing with a black spot at 

 lower angle of cell; a dentate postmedial black line, obsolete towards costa ; an indistinct 

 ochreous submarginal band ; a marginal black line. 



Matella participalis, il'lk. (Plate CLXV. fig. 17.) 



Egnasia participalis, II //,-. Cat. xvi. p. 218. 



Exjianse 1 jl, inch. 



Pale reddish brown. Fore wing with curved and sligiitly waved ante- and postmedial 



