476 xoctuidjs. 



Sect. III. {Homoptera). Male with no silky scales on 

 underside of either wing. 



2445. Homoptera albidens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 916 ; C.fyS. no. 2423. 



S . Kufous-brown. Fore wing with indistinct subbasal line ; 

 slightly sinuous anteinedial line ; reniform with a few white scales 

 round it ; a sinuous postmedial line excurved beyond cell, and with 

 a narrow white band beyond it ; a marginal lunulate line. Hind 

 wing with the basal and costal areas pale, the rest of the wing 

 suffused with rufous, especially on each side of the nearly straight 

 postmedial black line ; a crenulate marginal black line. 



Hah. Coimbatore. Exp. 30 millim. 



2446. Homoptera vinosa, n. sp. 



2 . Differs from albidens in being much darker and suffjsed 

 with purple; abdomen dorsally suffused with black. Fore wing 

 with the basal area darkest; indistinct double antemedial and 

 medial waved black lines ; a white speck in cell ; the reniform 

 greenish and elongate ; a double postmedial line angled beyond 

 the cell ; a triangular dark mark with white edges on the costa 

 before apex, which is suffused with white ; two black submarginal 

 spots ; a large patch of white suffusion on inner half of outer 

 area. Hind wing fuscous, with slight white marks on vein 2 ; a 

 marginal series of white specks ; the cilia fuscous ; underside 

 suffused with pink, and with a black cell-spot and crenulate medial 

 and postmedial lines. 



Hab. Nagas, 6000 feet (Boherty). Exp. 26 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus PANILLA. 



Panilla, Moore, Lep. Ceijl. ill, p. 93 (1884). 

 Caduca, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 96. 



Type, P. dispila, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Sumatra. 



Palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with long hair below, and with 

 long hair from their base, the 3rd joint minute ; antennae ciliated 

 in male ; metathorax with a slight tuft ; abdomen with dorsal 

 tufts at base; tibiae fringed with long hair in male, and without 

 spines ; coxae of fore legs with long tufts of hair. Tore wing 

 short, the apex rounded. 



2447. Panilla dispila, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 890 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 

 pi. 156, fig. 12 ; C.Sf S. no. 2469. 



Bright red-brown. Fore wing with indistinct curved waved 

 antemedial, medial, and postmedial dark lines arising from black 

 spots on the costa, the last with a black patch beyond it at centre ; 

 traces of a pale waved submarginal line ; a marginal series of 

 black specks, with a spot at centre of margin ; some black specks 

 on costa towards apex. Hind wing with antemedial and medial 



