28 NOCTUIDA. 
Genus CEPHENA. 
Cephena, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 196 (1882). 
Type, C. costata, Moore. 
Range. Sikhim ; Khasis. 
Palpi sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint stout, clothed thickly with 
hair and reaching above vertex of head, the 3rd long and stout ; 
a large frontal tuft ; antenne serrate in male; thorax and abdomen 
smoothly scaled. Fore femora and tibie fringed with long hair ; 
mid and hind tibie less hairy. Fore wing with the costa arched ; 
the outer margin excised from apex to vein 4, where it is excurved. 
Hind wing with the costa arched at base ; the outer margin excised 
below apex; vein 5 from close to lower angle of cell. 
2784. Cephena costata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 196, pl. 6, fig. 17; C.§ S. 
no. 3019. 
3. Head ochreous white; thorax brownish ochreous ; abdomen 
fuscous, the base pale. Fore wing 
brownish ochreous ; the costa with 
brownish ante- and _ postmedial 
patches irrorated with black; a 
rufous fascia from centre of cell to 
outer margin below apex, with a 
pure white streak on it in cell and 
speck at end of it; a black speck 
1, on inner margin before outer angle. 
Hind wing fuscous ; underside with 
the basal area ochreous white, the outer area fuscous. 
Hab. Sikhim; Khdsis. Hap. 46 millim. 
Genus AVITTA. 
Avitta, Wik. Cat. xv, p. 1674 (1858). 
Asta, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 170 (1864). 
Tvpe, A. subsignans, Wk. 
Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans ; 
Borneo; Gilolo. 
Palpi sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 
3rd long and naked; antennz long, and ciliated in male; thorax 
and abdomen smoothly scaled ; femora and tibiz fringed with hair. 
Fore wing with the apex somewhat rounded. Hind wing with 
vein 5 from just above lower angle of cell. 
2785. Avitta subsignans, Wik. Cat. xv, p. 1675; Hmpsn. Ill. Het. 
ix, pl. 167, fig. 7; C. § S. no. 3018. 2 
Avitta fasciosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 194, pl. 6, fig. 26; CS S. 
no. 3011. 
Head, thorax, and fore wing very dark reddish brown; the last 
