52 NOCTUID &. 
Specks on costa towards apex. Hind wing with the basal area 
deep purplish fuscous; a dark speck at end of cell; waved medial 
and postmedial lines, the area between them fulvous; a submar- 
ginal series of pale specks; both wings with a marginal series of 
black lunules. 
Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 22 millim. 
Genus NAGADEBA. 
Nagadeba, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1521 (1865). 
Type, WV. indecoralis, W1k. 
Range. Sikhim ; Nagas; Nilgiris; Ceylon; Burma; Andamans ; 
Java. 
Palpi very long and slender, the 2nd joint reaching far above 
vertex of head, the 3rd long with a tuft of hair on the inner side; 
antenne minutely ciliated ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 
tibie naked. Fore wing with the apex acute; the outer margin 
angled at middle. Hind wing with the outer margin produced 
to points at veins 4 and 7; the cilia crenulate; vein 5 from 
middle of discocellulars. 
2842, Nagadeba indecoralis, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, Pl beks Moore, Lep. 
Ceyl. iii, pl. 174, fig. 3; C. & S. no. 2754. 
Nagadeba janthina, Sine Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 255. 
Very dark red-brown, suffused with purplish; the wings irro- 
rated with white. Fore wing 
with traces of sinuous angled 
antemedial and medial lines; 
a postmedial whitish line very 
much bent outwards beyond 
the cell; traces of a white 
submarginal line; a marginal 
Fig. 26.—Nagadeba indccoralis, 8. 3%. fulvousline. Hind wing with 
| sinuous postmedial white line 
with diffused white on each side of it; traces of a crenulate 
white submarginal line ; a fulvous marginal line. Underside more 
highly coloured. 
Hab. Nilgiris; Ceylon; Burma; Java. Hap. 24 millim. 
2843. Nagadeba castanealis, n. sp. 
Differs from indecoralis in being much redder. Tore wing less 
suffused with blue-grey; a distinct waved antemedial line; a 
curved medial line; the postmedial line less bent out beyond cell. 
Hind wing with the pale line medial, and with a dark line beyond 
it; no crenulate submarginal line. 
‘Hab. Sikhim (Elwes); Nagas (Doherty). Exp, 28millim. Type 
in B. M. 
