LITHOSIIDjE. 55 



DIGAMA FASCIATA (Plate 100, Fig. 4, ? ). 

 Digama fasciata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 362. 



ForewiBg lilacine-grey ; two black dots at the base, three lunate spots on the 

 costa, two small spots in the cell, a sigmoidal streak at its end, a dot beyond it, a 

 less distinct transverse zigzag fascia, some spots below tlie cell, and a larger splash 

 near tlie base : hindwing straw-yellow. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs lilacine-grey, 

 black spotted ; abdomen yellow, with dorsal and lateral black spots. 



Expanse liV inch. 



Subfamily LITHOSIIN^. 



No stridulatory apparatus. Some genera with a glandular sac covered by 

 a recumbent plumose lappet on costal border. 



Genus CEONISTIS. 



(Eonistis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 165(1818-25); Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 356; 

 Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 13. 



Forewing : first subcostal branch long, free ; second arising from near end of 

 the cell, third from its end, trif urcate ; radial curving from end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellular bent in the middle ; median vein four-branched, two upper from end, third 

 from angle before end of the cell : hindwing — two subcostal branches immediately 

 beyond end of the cell ; two upper median branches from beyond and third from end 



of the cell. 



(EONISTIS ENTELLA (Plate 101, Fig. 2, ^ ). 



Phal Tinea Entella, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 27, pi. 208, f. D (1782). 

 (Eonistis Entelliola, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 165. 

 Lithosia Entella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 495. 

 (Eonistis Entella, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 14. 

 Noctua Delia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 25 (1793). 



Forewing straw-yellow, with a metallic purplish-blue costal band, a transverse 



medial hatchet-shaped band, and a subapical reversely similar band : hindwing paler 



yellow. Body straw-yellow, tegulse and middle of thorax, legs and palpi above, 



metalHc purplish-blue ; antennge brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



Genus BRUNIA. 



Bi-unia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 15. 

 Forewing long, narrow; first branch of subcostal vein short, oblique, anasto- 

 mosed to the costal, second starting from angle close before end of the cell, trifurcate, 

 fifth from end of the cell and looped to third branch at its base ; discocellular bent 

 below the middle, upper end angled close to subcostal ; radial from angle ; two 



