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SANGATISSA; NISAGA; SARMALIA; EUPTEROTE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
subcurvife- 
ra. 
triseriata. 
albipars. 
citrinula. 
simplex. 
modesta. 
rule see ns. 
alba. 
radiata. 
decolorata. 
fabia. 
13. Genus: Saiigatissa Mr. 
The diagnose of this genus based upon one widely distributed species has been given in Vol. II. p. 187. 
In the habitus there is a superficial resemblance with some Lemoniidae, the S exhibiting a robust thorax with 
a slender abdomen but stout head. Particularly remarkable is the extended shape of the hind wings. The 
flight of the dd is vigorous. 
S. subcurvifera Wkr. (Vol. II, t. 29 e). The species is distributed across the whole Himalaya and 
penetrates to the east as far as Southern China, but it does not reach the palearctic region in the east, to 
which it extends in the north-west in Cashmir; to the south as far as Ceylon. It prefers especially alpine districts, 
flying in the Nilgiris at an altitude of 6000 ft., in Ceylon yet high up in Nuwara Eliya. —- It varies rather 
much; entirely uni-coloured saffron specimens were denominated triseriata Btlr.\ from the Pulney Hills. — 
In ab. albipars Mr. the dark arcuate bands are all extinct; — ab. citrinula Wkr. (= teta Swh .) is yellow, and 
the bands next to the proximal margin are extinct, only the upper band being faintly traceable. — In 
some places the S3 are rather common. 
Another species of this genus: S. arctiades Swh. has remained unknown to me. 
14. Genus: jN4saga Wkr. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus chiefly by the much shorter cell of the hindwing. Likewise 
containing but one species of a yellow ground-colour, but not so widely distributed. 
N. simplex Wkr. (37 b). Like in the preceding species the ground-colour may vary between a bright, 
light yellow and a dingy brownish-red. In normal specimens the forewing is traversed by cinnamon-brown 
or greyish-brown longitudinal stripes of dark atoms of a variable intensity and density. —- These stripes are 
rarely absent: ab. modesta Mr. — Distributed in Southern India; in the Nilgiris (in September) and in 
the Ivhasia Hills in Assam. 
N. rufescens Hmps. from Mysore has an expanse of 50 mm, with red-brown wings tinted silvery 
grey. Forewing with a badly marked antemedian and median line and an oblique dark red-brown post median 
line. On the hindwing a brown postmedian band formed of diffuse lines. 
15. Genus: Sarmalia Wkr. 
This genus contains few whitish or pale yellow lepidoptera with bread wings, the S antennae with 
moderately long branches. Cell in both wings extremely short. The lower median vein rises behind the middle 
of the lower cell-wall which is twice as long in the hindwing as the upper, so that the discocellular runs obliquely. 
S. alba Swh. (37 c) is the largest species, quite bone-coloured white, in some places only feebly 
darkened by a creamy tint. Both wings are crossed by a thick, dark brown stripe parallel to the margin and 
10 to 15 mm before it. From the Philippines. 
S. radiata Wkr. (37 b) is much smaller, pale sulphur-coloured with slightly darker veins. Head 
and collar yolk-coloured. Philippines. 
S. decolorata Grbg. i. 1. (36 b). According to a figure sent by Dr. Grunberg, probably from the 
Berlin Museum. Patria not stated; allied to radiata ., though with a dark costal margin of the forewing; forewing 
to a great extent tinted greenish. 
16. Genus: Eupterote Hbn. 
This genus containing numerous forms but not species has been denominated according to the powerfully 
developed wings which enable the SS to fly swiftly though irregularly and in a somewhat plunging manner, 
swarming at night in a wheeling flight round the lamps even in the streets of the towns. According as 
the genus is conceived, the neuration is more or less constant and the body sometimes more slender, sometimes 
more robust. Some species (e. g. geminata Wkr.) have been ranged in 4 different genera ( Horonpella , Beodoptera, 
Dreata) by the different authors. They have a head of medium size, very small and slim palpi with a stunted 
terminal joint, doubly combed antennae with rather long branches in the Si the thorax is not very stout, but 
clad with very long, voolly hair, the abdomen in the S slender, not reaching the anal angle. In the forewing 
the 1st subcostal vein branches off before the upper cell-angle, the 2nd to 5th being forked, the upper radial 
rises nearer to the upper than to the lower cell-angle. The submedian is forked at the base; no areola.. In the 
hindwing the upper cell-wall is much shorter than the lower. Larva with long dark hair on tubercles; pupa 
in a dense web, short and stout. The genus is almost exclusively Indian, it also passes across the Sunda Islands 
and Philippines, and touches the palearctic region in the North West Himalaya; as to further particulars 
vid. Vol. II, p. 186. 
E. fabia Cr. (Vol. II, t. 29 f). The typical form is recognizable by the intensely golden yellow colour 
of the S- Across the wings extend numerous dark, undulate and dentate lines being sometimes distinct in 
