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NOCTUID^. 



1591. Kabila frontalis, 

 ii ; pi. 132, fig. 5 ; 



Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 508 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 C. Sf S. no . 1300. 



c? . Reddish ochreous : fore wing 

 with the veins and interspaces 

 slightly streaked with red-brown. 

 Hind wing white. 



Type very faded. 



Bab. Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



Fig. 109. — Babila frontalis, S • i- 



Genus XANTHIA. 

 Xanthia, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 82 (1816). 



Type, X. luteago, Eabr., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Amur ; Himalayas ; Khasi Hills. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed 

 palpi porrect or obliquely upturned ; antennas of male ciliated 

 thorax squarely scaled, with a high sharp crest behind the collar 

 abdomen without dorsal tufts, and clothed with long hair on the 

 back of proximal segments ; tibiee without spines. Eore wing 

 rather acute at apex ; the outer margin excurved at centre ; the 

 cilia slightly crenulate. 



1592. Xanthia alhosignata, Moor* 

 no. 1977. 



P. Z. S. 1881, p. 355 ; C. $ S. 



c? . Whitish, suffused with pale red-brown, the abdomen with 

 fuscous. Eore wing with whitish subbasal and antemedial lines, 

 the latter oblique; orbicular and reniform ochreous with chestnut 

 outline, the latter with four white specks on its outer edge ; a 



postmedial whitish line excurved beyond cell, the area beyond it 

 suffused with ochreous, with an indistinct submarginal chestnut 

 line ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing whitish, the inner area suffused 

 with fuscous ; traces of a postmedial line. Underside with post- 

 medial line to both wings and cell-spot to hind wing. 

 Bab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp. 56 millim. 



1593. Xanthia melonina, Butl. Ill Bet. vii, p. 57, pi. 128, fig. 7. 



Orange-yellow; collar and patagia with purplish lines on them; 

 abdomen tinged with pink. Eore wing with the veins purplish ; 



