512 noctuid^. 



line ; a submarginal series of black specks. Hind wing with the 

 apical area fuscous ; medial and postmedial ill-defined, waved, dark 

 lines, and submarginal series of black specks. 



Some specimens have a medial ochreous band to fore wing. 



2 with the markings of fore wing much less distinct ; the 

 triangular patch almost obsolete. 



Hob. Khasis ; Travancore ; Ceylon ; Rangoon ; Gilolo. Exp. 44 

 millim. 



Genus DELGAMMA. 

 Delgamma, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 168 (1885). 



Type, D. pangonia, Guen. 



Range. Sylhet; Ceylon; Andaraans ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and 

 smoothly scaled, the 3rd of moderate length ; a short frontal 

 tuft ; antennae fasciculate in male ; thorax and abdomen smoothly 

 scaled ; tibiae without spines and moderately hairy ; hind tarsi with 

 the first joint fringed above. Fore wing with the apex somewhat 

 acute. Hind wing of male with the cell short and a large oval 

 depression beyond it, veins 6 and 7 being bent and approaching 

 vein 8 ; veins 4 and 5 depressed and running along 3 to near margin. 



2534. Delgamma pangonia, Guen. Nod. iii, p. 214. 



Delgamma calovifica, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1406 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 iii, pi. 168, figs. 4, 4,a ; C. $ S. no. 2636. 



Bright rufous brown ; palpi and sides of frontal tuft black. 



Fore wing with very indistinct 

 subbasal and antemedial waved 

 lines ; a black speck at middle 

 of cell and two at end of it ; 

 a nearly straight postmedial 

 whitish line, the area beyond 

 it bright purple, with a den- 

 tate submarginal line and one 

 or two white-edged chocolate 

 apical patches ; a crenulate 



Fig. 287. -Delgamma pangonia, tf - b ™ ar g inal line j , the , ci J ia dark 



Hind wing with whitish post- 

 medial line, except on costal area, the area beyond it bright purple, 

 with some black and white marks just beyond the line ; a crenulate 

 marginal line ; the cilia dark. 



Hab. Sylhet ; Ceylon ; Andamans ; Borneo. Exp., J 42, 5 52 



Genus SYMPIS. 



Sympis, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 343 (1852). 



Type, S. rujibasis, Guen. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. 



