62 N0CTUIDJ5. 



patch on middle of costa, a rufous spot at upper angle of cell, some 

 rufous irroration in and below cell, and a small blood-red annulus 

 above inner margin ; a white apical patch with two small triangular 

 blood-red subterminal marks on it at veins 7, 6, the faint whitish 

 subterminal line arising from its lower extremity and slightly 

 excurved at middle ; a dark terminal line with a series of black 

 points on it. Hind wing rufous with an olive tinge and slight 

 silvery irroration ; an indistinct white medial band with some blood- 

 red scales on its edges, slightly excurved at middle ; a dark 

 terminal line ; the underside white, the terminal half tinged with 

 brown, a brownish discoidal striga. 



Hah. Madras {Watson), 1 c? ; Cetlon", Hambantota (Pole), 3 (S 

 type. Ecvp. 12 millim. 



Genus NIACCABA. 



Type. 



Niaccaha, Wlk. sxxiv. 1272 (1865) sumptualis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned well in front of Prons, slender, 

 the 2ud joint reaching to about vertex of head, the cird short; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales 

 and witliout crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen without 

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

 apex, excurved at middle and very oblique towards tornus ; veins o, 4 stalked ; 

 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from angle ; 8 and 

 10 stalked, 9 absent ; 11 from cell. Hind wmg with the apical part of termen 

 lobed ; the termen nearly straight from discal fold to tornus ; veins 3, 4 

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

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5072. Niaccaha sumptualis, 



Maccaba sumptualis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1272 (1865) ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. 

 p. 161, pi. 171. f. 3 ; id. Moths Ind. iii. p. 65. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown, the vertex of 

 head white ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen Avhitish. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown, the costa tinged with blood-red towards 

 base; a black subbasal point on costa; an indistinct inwardly 



Fig. 26. — Niaccaba sumptualis, c? . t- 



oblique red-brown antemedial line with black point on costa ; 

 a black point on middle of costa, with an oblique rather diffused 

 red-brown line from below it to inner margin at antemedial line ; 

 traces of a red-brown postmedial line from vein 6 to inner margin, 

 oblique below vein 4 ; the apical part of costa with slight 



