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CATALOGUE OF 
conical, minute. Antennae slender. Abdomen hardly extending 
beyond the hind wings. Wings rather broad. Fore wings partly 
pale cinereous, thinly black-speckled, with two pale fawn-coloured 
parallel lines, which extend from the base to the disk, and are there 
bent forward, the fore one bordering the outer side of a triangular 
black discal dot; exterior line brown, undulating, indistinct; a 
double row of submarginal blackish streaks ; marginal points 
blackish, bordered with white on the inner side. Hind wings 
brownish cinereous ; marginal line brown. Length of the body 4 
lines; of the wiugs 10 lines. 
a, b. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 
Genus 42. MALIATTHA. 
Mas. Corpus vix robustum. Palpi oblique ascendentes, ver- 
ticem non superantes ; articulus 2us subarcuatus ; 3us longi-coni- 
cus, 2i dimidio brevior. Antennae basi validae. Abdomen alas 
posticas paullo superans, apicem versus subtumidum ; fasciculus 
apicalis longijisculus. Tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor parvis. 
Alae anticae breviusculae, latiusculae, vix acutae, margine exteriore 
convexo. 
Male. Body hardly stout. Palpi obliquely ascending, not 
rising higher than the vertex ; secend joint slightly curved ; third 
elongate-conical, less than half the length of the second. Antennae 
stout at the base. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 
wings, slightly tumid towards the tip ; apical tuft rather long. 
Hind tibiae with four rather short spurs. Wings rather broad and 
short. Fore wings hardly acute; exterior border convex, mode- 
rately oblique. 
1. Maliattha separata. 
Mas. A Ibid a, fas co conspersa ; alee anticee fascia media cervina 
nigro submarginata postice dilata extus excavata lituram albi- 
dam includente , plaga subapicali cervina nigro strigata , spatio 
marginali cervino linearn albidam undulatam subrnarginalem 
includente ; posticee fuscescente-cinereee. 
Male. Whitish, brown-speckled. Fore wings with a fawn- 
coloured slightly black-bordered middle band, which is much di- 
lated hindward, and is deeply notched on the outer side in front, 
where it contains a whitish figure of 8 discal mark ; a fawn-coloured 
black-streaked subapical patch ; marginal space fawn-coloured, in- 
cluding a whitish undulating submarginal line ; fringe cinereous, 
