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NOCTUID^. 
indistinct^ slightly waved and irregular, inwardly-oblique brown lines. Hind wing fuscous. 
Underside ; fore wing grey, with indistinct postmedial and submarginal lines, a I'ed-brown 
patch on the outer margin below the apex, and series of white marginal specks ; hind wing 
whitish, irrorated with red-brown scales ; a cell-spot, denticulate postmedial, and waved 
submarginal red-brown lines and lunulate submarginal line. 
Egnasia nubifascia. (Plate CLXV. fig. 9.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Head and collar chestnut-brown ; thorax aud abdomen clothed with chestnut 
and blackish scales. Fore wing brownish ochreous ; the basal half clouded with dark brown, 
and with traces of antemedial and medial dark lines ; a white circular spot in the centre of 
the cell, and a lunulate one at the end of it ; a lunulate postmedial dark line ; a broad dark 
brown submarginal band, with a lunulate line beyond it; a marginal dark line and patch at 
centre of outer margin. Hind wing similar to the fore wing, except that the lunulate Avhite 
spot is absent, and the medial and outer ochreous areas are more clouded with brown. 
Egnasia ceylonica, Wlk. (Plate CLXVI. fig. 9.) 
Thermesia ceylonica, Wll\ Cat. xxxiii. p. 1061. 
Expanse \{ inch. 
Female. Pale vinous brown ; palpi mostly suffused with fuscous. Wings irrorated with 
fuscous ; an oblique dark line from the apex of fore ^^ ing to centre of inner margin of hind 
wing, diffused at the apex ; traces of a waved submarginal line ; fore wing with some pale 
costal specks towards apex. Tarsi pale-ringed. 
Rhesala palpalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXV. fig. 19.) 
Ecregma? palpalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1180. 
Expanse ^ inch. 
Male. Cinereous fuscous brown ; palpi with a fiery red stripe at sides. Fore wing with 
indistinct waved ante- and postmedial pale lines, the latter excurved beyond the cell ; a black 
spot on discocellulars ; traces of a submarginal waved line. Hind wing with a black spot at 
lower angle of cell ; a dentate postmedial black line, obsolete towards costa ; an indistinct 
ochreous submarginal band ; a marginal black line. 
Matella participalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXV. fig. 17.) 
Egnasia participalis, W lk. Cat. xvi. p. 218. 
Expanse 1^^^ inch. 
Pale reddish brown. Fore wing with curved and slightly waved ante- and postmedial 
