142 ME. W. p. KIRBT ON THE 



MeSTUS (?) NIGEOPUNCTATDS. 



Mestus(?) nigropunctatus, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 112 

 (1863). 



Described from Ceylon (Patannas). 



Deebid^. 



DeEBE rUECATOTITTATA. 



Derbe furcatovittata, Stal, Vet. ATcad. Forliandl. xii. p. 191 (1855). 

 Described from Java; included in Motsch iilsky's list as Cin- 

 gbalese. 



Deebe (?) nitagalensis, sp. n. (Plate Y. fig. 3.) 



Long. Corp. 4 lin. ; exp. al. 18 millim. 



Orange-tawny, with a white line on the median line of the 

 head and thorax ; the orbits and sides of the head are mostly 

 white, and there are two white stripes on each side of the thorax 

 above ; the outermost, as well as two narrower ones on the 

 pleura, extending more or less over the femora. Tegmiua with 

 the subcostal nervure and its branches broad, and orange-tawny 

 beyond the middle, the other nervures paler, mostly whitish, 

 and with the cells and spaces between the nervures filled up 

 with irregularly alternating long stripes of brown and subhyaline, 

 the arrangement of which can be better seen in the figure than 

 described. "Wings about half the length of the tegmiua, and 

 very similarly marked. 



Sab. Nitagala. 



Deebe (?) crenatoneevosa. 



Derbe (?) crenatonervosa, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 113, pi. ii. 

 f. 25 (1863). 



Described from Ceylon (N"ura Ellia). 



*tTHEACIA PTEEOPHOEOIDES. 



Derbe (Thracia) pterophoroides, Westw. Ann. Nut. Hist. (2) vii. p. 210 

 (1851). 



Described from Ceylon; Mr. Grreen's specimens are from 

 Nawalapitya. 



*t Theacia ctjmulata. 



Thracia cumulata. Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. x. p. 139 

 (1868). 



Described from Amboina and Bouru. Mr. Grreen's specimens 

 from Nawalapitya do not appear to be distinct. 



