86 CATALOGUE OF 



conical, minute. Antennae slender. Abdomen hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Wings rather broad. Fore wings partly 

 pale cinereous, thinly black-speckled, with two pale fawn-coloured 

 parallel lines, which extend from the base to the disk, and are there 

 bent forward, the fore one bordering the outer side of a triangular 

 black discal dot; exterior line brown, undulating, indistinct; a 

 double row of submarginal blackish streaks ; marginal points 

 blackish, bordered with white on the inner side. Hind wings 

 brownish cinereous ; marginal line brown. Length of the body 4 

 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a, b. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



Genus 42. MALIATTHA. 



Mas. Corpus vix robustnm. Palpi oblique ascendentes, ver- 

 ticera non superautes ; articulus 2us subarcuatus ; 3us longi-coni- 

 cus, 2i dimidio brevior. Antennae basi validae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas paullo superans, apicem versus subtumidum ; fasciculus 

 apicalis Jongiusculus. Tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor parvis. 

 Alae anticae breviusculae, latiusculae, vix acutae, margine exteriore 

 convexo. 



Male. Body hardly stout. Palpi obliquely ascending, not 

 rising higher than the vertex ; secend joint slightly curved ; third 

 elongate-conical, less than half the length of the second. Antennae 

 stout at the base. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings, slightly tumid towards the tip ; apical tuft rather long. 

 Hind tibiae with four rather short spurs. Wings rather broad and 

 short. Fore wings hardly acute ; exterior border convex, mode- 

 rately oblique. 



1. Maliattha separata. 



Mas. Albida, fusco conspersa ; alee antica fascia media cervina 

 nigro submurginata postice dilata extus excavata liluram albi- 

 dam includente^ plaga subaplcali cervina nigro strigata, spatio 

 marginati cervino lineam albidam undulatam submarginalem 

 includente ; posticce fusees cente-cinerea. 



Male. Whitish, brown-speckled. Fore wings with a fawn- 

 coloured slightly black-bordered middle band, which is much di- 

 lated hindward, and is deeply notched on the outer side in front, 

 where it contains a whitish figure of 8 discal mark ; a fawn-coloured 

 black-streaked suhapical patch ; marginal space fawn-coloured, in- 

 cluding a whitish undulating submarginal line; fringe cinereous, 



