66 NOCTUID &. 
Genus TALAPA. 
Talapa, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 82. 
Type, T. caliginosa, W1k. 
Range. Sikhim; Khasis; Nagas; Ceylon. 
Palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd and 3rd joints long, the 2nd 
clothed with hair; antenne minutely ciliated in male; thorax and 
abdomen smoothly scaled; tibie hairy. Fore wing with the apex 
produced and acute. Hind wing with vein 5 from lower angle 
of cell. 
Secr. I. Fore wing with the outer margin slightly angled at vein 4. 
2890. Talapa caliginosa, Wk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1017. 
Talapa caliginosalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, pl. 7, fig. 6; C.& 8. 
no. 2849. 
¢. Head and thorax dark red-brown; abdomen fuscous. Fore 
wing dark red-brown, slightly irrorated with grey scales; almost 
straight oblique medial 
and postmedial dark lines 
with grey inner edges. 
Hind wing dark fuscous, 
with crenulate marginal 
line. Underside red- 
wih dish, with dark post- 
i medial and_ indistinct 
si submarginal lines; hind 
Fig. 33.—Talapa caliginosa, S. }- wing with cell-spot. 
©. Much redder. 
Hab. Sikhim. Euxp., 6 42, 9 52 millim. 
ie 
2891. Talapa rufilineata, n. sp. 
dS. Grey ; the wings irrorated with rufous. Fore wing with . 
oblique antemedial, medial, and postmedial straight rufous lines; 
the costa rufous; a subapical jet-black spot, with a rufous band 
from it to costa, and traces of a curved line from it to outer margin ; 
a submarginal series of rufous specks, Hind wing with ante- 
medial and two postmedial oblique rufous straight lines; both 
wings with waved marginal rufous lines. 
Hab. Nagas (Doherty). Hap. 44 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 
2892. Talapa griseifusa, n. sp. 
Head and thorax dark red-brown. Fore wing dark red-brown, 
suffused with blue-grey ; an antemedial diffused erect dark line ; 
medial and postmedial ill-defined irregular lines, the former with 
grey lunule on it at end of cell; a double submarginal straight 
oblique line, filled in with rufeus and not reaching apex, with 
black subapical and medial patches beyond ist. Abdomen and hind 
wing brown, the latter with traces of postmedial line. 
The Naga female has the medial line of fore wing and post- 
medial line of hind wing double, and orange specks at the angle of 
cell of fore wing instead of the l2nule on discocellulars. 
Hab. Sikhim (Elwes); Nagas (Doherty). Hap. 40-42 millim. 
Type in coll. Elwes. 
