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with some olive in centre and slight pale annulus ; a dark medial line, 

 oblique from costa to vein 2, then inwardly oblique and somewhat dentate ; 

 postmedial line blackish, double towards costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line dark, 

 dentate, angled outwards at veins 4 - 3 and inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds, with a dark streak beyond it above vein 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia reddish brown. Hindwing ochreous tinged with 

 pinkish and irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused with fuscous, 

 the termen and cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the terminal area 

 slightly irrorated with black, a black discoidal spot and curved pinkish 

 postmedial line. 



$ . Head and thorax suffused with olive fuscous ; abdomen tinged 

 with brown ; forewing with the ground colour olive fuscous, the markings 

 indistinct ; hindwing wholly suffused with fuscous brown. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Haldamulla, Hambantota. Exp. S 42, 2 44 mill. 



Sect. II. — Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with the ground-colour violaceous grey, f/laucochlora. 



B. Forewing with the ground-colour red-brown . . nridipicta. 

 1770. Angara glaucochlora. 



1770«. Ancaba vibidipicta. 



Genus, Abbobicornis. 

 1853. Abbobicobnis bubba. 



Genus, Cobythurus. 



1824. COBYTHURUS NOCTUBNA. 



Genus, Oligia. 



Type. 



Oligia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 213 (1827) . . ... . . strigilis. 



Miana, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., iii, p. 11 (1829) . . literosa. 



Photedes, Led. Noct. Eur., pp. 44 and 189 (1857) . . . . captiuncula. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the second joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the third short, 

 blunt, naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; 

 head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Forewing triangular, the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomising with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins 3" 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6-7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



Sect. I. — Forewing of male with fan of large scales in cell on underside. 

 A. Forewing with the orbicular and reniform confluent 



on median nervure . . . . . . . . ptyophora. 





