. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 40 NOCTUID^. Genus ENISPA. Type. Enispa, Wl'k. xxxiv. 1275 {18Q5) eosarialis. ^ MicrcBSchus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 402 (1878) elataria. Trogacontia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 520 (1896) alblfrontata. Proboscis aborted, small or absent; palpi upturned, reaching about to middle of frons, slender and smoothly scaled, the 3rd joint short; f'rons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male with long cilia; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; tibiffismoothly scaled, the spurs long; abdomen without crests.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 40 NOCTUID^. Genus ENISPA. Type. Enispa, Wl'k. xxxiv. 1275 {18Q5) eosarialis. ^ MicrcBSchus, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 402 (1878) elataria. Trogacontia, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 520 (1896) alblfrontata. Proboscis aborted, small or absent; palpi upturned, reaching about to middle of frons, slender and smoothly scaled, the 3rd joint short; f'rons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male with long cilia; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; tibiffismoothly scaled, the spurs long; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen typically non-crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; .5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7, from upjjer angle; 8 anaBtomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Both wings with the termen crenulate and excui'ved at veins 5 and 3. 5031. Enispa purpurea, n, sp. 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous siafFiised with purple and irrorated with black-brown ; palpi in front, pectus, mid and hind legs, and ventral surface of abdomen j-ellowish white. Fore wing purple thickly irrorated with blackish; a slight blackish subbasal line from costa to vein 1, ang;led outwards below costa and incurved below the cell; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, waved; a black discoidal bar, constricted at middle; postmedial line double filled in with purple and some pale yellow, bent out- wards below costa, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 3 and. Fig. 18.—Enispa purpurea, cJ. angled inwards in submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line duuble filled in with purple and some pale yellow, minutely waved, incurved below vein 2 ; a fine waved blackish terminal line; cilia blackish mixed with yellow and with yellow line at base. Hind wing purple thickly irrorated with b
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