22 THE LEPIbOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



latter line being continued along the middle of posterior margin, and then extending 

 obliquely upward across the disc to near the apex, and is then bent inward to the 

 costa above end of the cell; a sub marginal row of black spots traversed by a purplish- 

 white lunular line; a marginal denticulated black line; orbicular spot outwardly 

 oblique, black lined ; reniform mark with purplish outer bordered line ; below the 

 cell, between the median and submedian, is a large conical black spot; edge of 

 posterior margin pale whitish-cinereous : hindwing pale bro-nai, palest at the base ; 

 cilia pale cinereous-brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs purplish cinereous-brown ; 

 abdomen pale brown ; legs with pale bands. 

 Expanse If inch. 



NEURIA DISSECTA (Plate 146, Fig. 7). 

 Heliophohis cHssectus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxii. p. 6.56 (186.5), j. 



Forewiug dark purplish-brown, or purplish-black, the veins lined with pale 

 purple ; crossed by a slender black, yellow or pale purple-bordered subbasal line, an 

 outwardly oblique antemedial similar line, and a discal inwardly oblique line, each 

 line being bent inward to the costa, the two inner lines from the subcostal vein and 

 the discal line from the upper radial ; a submarginal similar coloured sinuous line, 

 and a marginal row of black dentate marks ; a pale streak from angle of the discal 

 line to the apex ; orbicular and reniform mark defined by a yellowish and pale purple 

 line: hindwing cinereous-brown; cilia edged with pale cinereous. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, and legs dark purplish-brown, and yellow speckled; tarsi with pale bands. 

 Abdomen cinereous-brown, anal segment pale ferruginous. 



Expanse If inch. 



NEURIA DISCREPANS. 



IIelio2')Jiobns discrepans, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 655 (1865), 



" Male. Cinereous-brown above, testaceous beneath : fore wings with black 

 denticulated lines which are interrupted by pale cinereous streaks along the veins ; 

 a short broad oblique pale cinereous-brown speckled discal streak ; marginal lunules 

 black ; costal subapical points testaceous-cinereous ; reniform mark pale bordered, 

 very large : hindwings cupreous, cinereous towards the base ; fringe testaceous. 

 Wings beneath with a large blackish discal spot and with two exterior brown lines. 

 Palpi obliquely ascending, third joint linear, rounded at the tip, nearly half length 

 of the second ; antennae long, rather broadly pectinated, bare at the tips. 



" Expanse 16 to 18 lines." 



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



