DIGAMA. — NOTATA. 
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LITHOSIID^. 
Digama marchalii, Guer., var. intermedia, nov. 
Expanse l-^.j inch. 
Female. Fore wing cinereous white ; two small black spots at the base ; another larger 
on the costa near the base, with a small black streak below it, and a dusky blotch near the 
inner margin ; a round black spot in the cell ; a lunulate one at the end of it ; the wing 
crossed by three irregular interrupted dusky bands, one a third from base, the second at end 
of cell, curving round outside of it, the third submarginal ; the apical portion of the costa, 
the outer margin, and cilia dusky. Hind wing bright yellow, with a small black streak iu 
the centre of the outer margin. Head and thorax cinereous, with dusky blotches, and two 
black spots on the collar. Abdomen yellow, with a series of black segmental spots above 
and at each side. 
An intermediate variety between D. marchalii and D. jigurata, the former of which has 
the costal and outer areas of fore wing clouded with fuliginous, the marginal and submarginal 
bands wanting, and all the other markings less distinct ; while the latter has the markings 
black, and so broad that they cover the greater part of the fore wing, the outer margin of 
hind wing also has dark markings. 
Katha brevipennis, Walk. (Plate CXXXIX. figs. 2, 11.) 
Lithosia brevipennis, Wall^:. Cat. Lep. Ilet. B.M. ii. p. 509. 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Fore wing broader, and with the inner margin more lobed than in the female 
and of a much darker colour, a reddish ochreous-brown ; two slight longitudinal folds below 
first and second median nervules. Hind wing similar to that of female. The basal segments 
of abdomen clothed with long hairs. 
Walker's type is a female. 
NOTATA, g. n. 
Palpi short, weak, and porrect ; antennae simple : fore wing long, narrow, and pointed 
at apex ; costa slightly and evenly arched. Hind wing ample ; costa nearly straight. 
Male. With a large patch of long brown scales on the underside of fore wing, filling up 
the outer two thirds of the cell, and extending below the median vein : hind wing with a 
patch on the upperside, similar in size and position. 
