282 NOCTUID^. 



apex ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia deep rufous. Hind wing 

 ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; an 

 oblique whitish postmedial line with rufous band before it; an 



Fig. 83. — Parasada carnosa, cj . \. 



indistinct pale waved subterminal line ; a fine rufous terminal line ; 

 cilia deep rufous ; the underside ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with black, a black discoidal bar and minutely waved 

 postmedial line. 



Eah. Cexlojt, Wawalapitiya {Green), 1 c? , Kandy (Green), 3 c? , 

 2 $ , Kelani Valley {Butt), 1 $ type : Bali {Dohertij), 1 $ . Exp. 

 18-24 millim. 



Genus EPIGRYPERA, nov. 



Type, E. criogona. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely upturned, porrect towards 

 extremity and extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 hair above towards tip, the 3rd short; frons smooth with tul't of hair above; 

 eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales and without crests ; fore coxre and the femora and tibiae of male 

 fringed with long hair, the tibiae of female moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and 

 acute, the termen excurved at middle and oblique towards toruus, not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing vvith veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from well below middle of 

 discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved below costa, 



then incurved eriogona. 



B, Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved below costa, 



at middle and above inner margin argenticincta. 



5425. Epigrypera eriogona, n. sp. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi and frons bright rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged and 

 irrorated with rufous, the terminal area deep rufous, some slight 

 silvery irroration ; subbasal black points on costa and in cell ; ante- 

 medial black points on costa and subcostal nervure with a bright 

 rufous mark before them slightly irrorated with black; a tri- 

 angular bright rufous patch at end of cell with an oblique black 

 striga above its extremity from costa ; postmedial line pale, slightly 

 defined on inner side by brown, bent outwards below costa and slightly 



