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NOCTUID^. 



Genus ENISPA. 



Type. 



Enispa, Wl'k. xxxiv. 1275 {18Q5) eosarialis. ^ 



MicrcBSchus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 402 (1878) elataria. 



Trogacontia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 520 (1896) alblfrontata. 



Proboscis aborted, small or absent ; palpi upturned, reaching about to middle 

 of frons, slender and smoothly scaled, the 3rd joint short; f'rons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antenna of male with long cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales 

 and without crests ; tibiffi smoothly scaled, the spurs long; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen 

 typically non-crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 stalked ; .5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7, 

 from upjjer angle ; 8 anaBtomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Both wings with the termen crenulate and excui'ved at veins 5 and 3. 



5031. Enispa purpurea, n, sp. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous siafFiised with purple 

 and irrorated with black- brown ; palpi in front, pectus, mid and 

 hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen j-ellowish white. Fore 

 wing purple thickly irrorated with blackish ; a slight blackish 

 subbasal line from costa to vein 1, ang;led outwards below costa 

 and incurved below the cell ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 waved ; a black discoidal bar, constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with purple and some pale yellow, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 3 and 



Fig. 18. — Enispa purpurea, cJ. 



angled inwards in submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line duuble filled in with purple and some pale 

 yellow, minutely waved, incurved below vein 2 ; a fine waved 

 blackish terminal line ; cilia blackish mixed with yellow and with 

 yellow line at base. Hind wing purple thickly irrorated with 

 blackish ; a diffused black discoidal spot ; postmedial line pale 

 yellow, dentate, with a small quadrate yellow spot beyond the 

 cell ; subterminal line double, brown filled in with yellowish, 

 slightly angled outwards at discal fold, then very minutely waved ; 

 a black patch at apex ; cilia yellowish white mixed with black and 

 with waved yellow line at base ; the underside with the basal 

 area brown, a broad diffused whitish medial band, the terminal area 

 fuscous leaving some whitish on termen. 



Hah. SiNG4i'0EE {Ridleij), 1 $ type. Exp. 20 millim. 



