18 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



ferruginous-bordered denticulated and undulating lines ; interior and exterior lines 

 very remote from each otHer ; submarginal line ferruginous, undulating, incomplete, 

 partly double ; marginal festoon black, with, a ferruginous outer border; orbicular 

 and reniform marks ferruginous, black bordered, very large, and near eacb other, 

 the latter very slightly excavated : hindwiugs white, semi-hyaline ; marginal line 

 brown. Abdomen cinereous, with brownish crests towards the base; third joint 

 of palpi conical, not more than one-fourth length of the second; antennae stout, 

 minutely serrated, each tooth with a minute tuft of hairs. 

 "Expanse 11 to 12 lines," 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection, 



LAPHYGMA TRAJICIENS. 



Laphygma trqjiciens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 653 (1865). 



" Male, Very pale fawn colour above, whitish-testaceous beneath : forewings 

 with the lines blackish-brown, slight, denticulated, pale bordered ; submarginal line 

 pale, interrupting some black submarginal sti'eaks ; marginal points black ; orbicular 

 and reniform marks pale, large, the former round, the latter hardly excavated, with 

 its disc mostly blackish-brown ; some blackish marks along the costa : hindwings 

 white, opaline. Third joint of palpi conical, not more than one-fourth the length of 

 second ; antenna? thickly setose. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



Genus PRODENIA. 

 Prodenia, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 159 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. is. p. 191. 



Male : forewing elongate, rather narrow, exterior margin oblique, posterior 

 margin recurved ; cell narrow, extending to three-fifths the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, fifth from end 

 of the cell, touching the third for some distance near the base ; discocellular concave, 

 bent close to lower end, radial from upper end and lower angle ; middle median from 

 angle close to end of the cell, lower at one-fourth before the end; submedian 

 recurved : hindwing short, apex convex, exterior margin oblique and slightly convex 

 in the middle ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave in the 

 middle, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell ; lower 

 at nearly one-third before the end. Body stout ; palpi laxly squamose, second joint 

 thick, third joint thick and conical ; antennje slender, ciliated ; legs stout, spurred. 



Type, P. retina. 



