158 ■ ME. "W. r. KIEBY OK THE 



*tMi]srDUEA Hemeeobii. 



Ricania Hemerobii, Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M. ii. p. 425 (1851). 

 Described from Ceylon. Mr. Green's specimens are from 

 Pundaloya and Nawalapitya. 



^tNoGODiKA G-EEENi, sp. D. (Plate V. fig. 15.) 

 . Long. Corp. 9 millim. ; exp. tegm. 28 millim. 



Head and thorax mostly testaceous above, the latter with two 

 black carinas, diverging behind, the space between these and the 

 central testaceous stripe brown ; a black spot on each side in 

 front ; abdomen yellow at the sides (greenish at the base) and 

 brown in the middle ; marginal carinae and last two segments 

 black ; a white spot at the base of the terminal segment. Face 

 testaceous, with the frontal and lateral carinse very narrowly 

 black ; three testaceous carinae, diverging and disappearing at a 

 level with the lower boundary of the eyes, which are black in the 

 middle, bordered with yellowish ; rostrum black at the base and 

 extremity. Under surface of body pale greenish ; coxae spotted 

 and hind femora lined beneath with black ; tarsi and spines of 

 hind tibiae blackish ; abdomen brownish in the middle, and with 

 the sides of the terminal segments black. Tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, with brown nervures ; hind margins bordered with 

 smoky brown ; tegmina with a large oblong stigma, enclosing a 

 square vitreous spot on the subcostal space ; there is also a 

 brown spot at the tip, and another within it ; another, confluent 

 with the brown border, stands rather below the middle of the 

 hind margin ; and the inner margin is broadly brown, from the 

 point where it forms a rounded projection near the base to the 

 hinder angle ; the nervures nearest the inner margin are broad 

 and brown, and the cross-nervures rising before the hinder angle 

 are also slightly clouded. 



Somewhat resembles Mindura Hemerohii, Walk. 



Deltota. 



Ceecopidje. 



Pekthimia eueopukctata. 



Penthimia rufopunctata, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 94 (1863). 



Described from Ceylon (Nura EUia and Patannas). 



*tPEK'THIMIA MELAKOCEPHALA. 



Penthimia melanocephala, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 95 (1863), 



Nura Ellia {MotscJiulshy) ; Pundaloya ( Green). 



