64 NOCTUID A. 
C. Mud legs of male with a tuft of long hair from femoro-tibial joint. 
2885. Catada albolineata, n. sp. 
Dark red-brown ; palpi with the base of 8rd joint white. Fore 
wing with a pure white obliquely waved medial line; a straight 
submarginal ochreous line; some white specks on costa towards 
apex ; both wings with a series of ochreous cilial specks. 
Hab. Simla (Harford); Sikhim (Moller). Hap. 25 millim. Type, 
S in coll. Elwes, 2 in B. M. 
2886. Catada nigribasis, Swink. MS. 
gS. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey-brown ; palpi 
black. Fore wing purplish grey-brown, with a large jet-black 
basal patch with oblique outer edge; a dark speck at end of cell; 
the costal area darker towards apex; a sinuous white submarginal 
line. Hind wing fuscous. Abdomen long. (Mid legs wanting.) 
Hab. Khasis. Hxp. 22 millim. 
Genus ARHOPTERUM. 
Areopteron, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, p. 1386 (1893). 
Type, A. pectale, Hmpsn. 
Range. Ceylon. 
Palpi slender and sickle-shaped, reaching just above vertex of 
head; antenne almost simple; thorax and abdomen smoothly 
scaled; tibiz naked. Fore wing rather long and narrow; the 
apex rounded ; veins 3, 4 stalked; 6 from below angle of cell; 7 
from angle; 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 
6, 7 stalked; 5 from middle of discocellulars. 
2887. Areopterum pictale, Hmpsn. Ill. Het. ix, p. 187, pl. 168, fig. 19. 
o. Head and thorax purplish white; palpi black; abdomen 
fulvous. Fore wing purplish white, 
irrorated with fuscous ; fuscous 
specks on costa and suffusion on 
disk, below apex, and at outer 
angle; yellow specks in and at 
end of cell; a series of dark mar- 
Fig. 30. ginal specks. Hind wing with 
Areopterum pictale, 3. t. the discal area fulvous; a dark 
subbasal line and lunule on discocellulars ; the apex fuscous ; a 
marginal series of dark specks. 
Hab. Ceylon. ap. 16 millim. 
Genus NIACCABA. 
Niaccaba, Wik. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1272 (1860). 
Type, V. sumptuales, W1k. 
Range. Ceylon. 
Palpi sickle-shaped, slender, and reaching above vertex of head, 
