70 NOCTUID A. 
2. With the fore wing very much paler. , 
Larva with the first two pairs of abdominal prolegs rudimentary ; 
a conical dorsal hump on 11th somite; colour greyish brown 
above, purplish beneath; the sides greyish, with a longitudinal 
brown line; spiracles black ; head ochreous, with a black spot in 
front. 
Hab. Sikhim ; Ceylon; Singapore. Hap., g 42, 2 50 millim. 
Genus ANORATHA. 
Anoratha, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 82. 
Type, A. costalis, Moore. 
Range. Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. 
Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extremely long with a downward 
curve, its upperside fringed with scales; the 3rd joint long and 
depressed. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter very 
long in male. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex, 
which is produced and acute, more so in the male than the female; 
the outer margin excurved at middle, especially in male. Hind 
wing with veins 3 and 4 on a short stalk; 5 from the middle of 
discocellulars ; the outer margin excised towards anal angle in 
male. 
2899. Anoratha costalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 82, pl. 7, fig. 10; 
C. §& S. no. 2850. 
Head pale; palpi black at sides; thorax dark red-brown; abdo- 
men fuscous. Fore wing dark rich red-brown; a whitish costal 
fascia; a straight erect 
postmedial white line, 
with a rufous spot 
beyond it on vein 5d. 
Hind wing pale fus- 
cous, with indistinct 
a pale postmedial line ; 
Re underside with dark 
cell-spot and _ post- 
medial line. 
Fig. 88.—Anoratha costalis, 2. 1}. 
Hab. Sikhin. Exp. 54 millim. 
2900. Anoratha paritalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p.65; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 
——" pl. 176, figs. 7,74; C.§ 8. no. 2861. 
Head and thorax pale chestnut ; palpi black at sides; abdomen 
fuscous. Fore wing pale chestnut, irrorated with a darker tint; 
the costa slightly paler ; an indistinct antemedial angulated line ; 
a postmedial oblique line; some indistinct submarginal specks. 
Hind wing fuscous; the cilia chequered rufous and fuscous ; 
underside with indistinct cell-spot and postmedial line. 
