28 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



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

 ginous-brown ; tarsi with pale ochreous bands. 

 Expanse, <? ItV, 2 l-nr inch. 



APAMEA CONSANGUIS. 



Iladena consangtiis, Guenec, Noct. ii. p. 97 (18o2). 



Ajjamea widicilia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 251 (1856). 



Forewing pale brownish-ochreous, speckled with brown ; some blackish streaks 

 along the costa ; a dark brown subbasal, an antemedial, and a discal zigzag duplex 

 line, the medial area being more or less dark brown ; a small rounded black-lined 

 mark below the cell ; a marginal pale-bordered sinuous brown band, and a slender 

 lunular interciliary line ; orbicular and reniform mark black lined : hindwing pale 

 cinereous, with broad brownish outer border. Body ochreous-brown ; thorax streaked 

 with ferruginous-brown ; tarsi with black bands. 



Expanse, $ \\, ? 1-| inch. 



Genus PERIGEA. 

 Perigea, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 225 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. JI. x. p. 270. 



Forewiug elongated; cell extending more than half length of the wing; first 

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

 third from close to its base immediately above end of the cell, and fourth at one-third 

 beyond base of the third, fifth from end of the cell and joined to third by a short 

 spur close to its base ; discocellular obliquely concave, radials from upper end and 

 close to lower end ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at one- 

 third before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, exterior margin convex, 

 slightly scalloped; cell extending to nearly one-half the wing; costal and subcostal 

 joined together near their base ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 oblique, recurved, radial from below the middle ; middle median from immediately 

 before end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian and internal vein straight. 

 Body rather stout ; palpi ascending, second joint extending to level of the eyes, first 

 and second joints laxly squamose, third joint cylindric ; antennge setose ; legs rather 

 thick, femora pilose beneath, spurs long. 



PERIGEA CENTRALIS (Plate 147, Fjg. 2, ^ , 2a, larva). 



Perigea centralis, Walker, Catal. Lp]). Het. B. M. xi. p. 734 (1857), ? . 



Celcvna serva, Walker, id. xv. p. I(>b9 (1858), (J. 



Perigea canorvja, Walker, id. xx.\ii. p. 683 (1865), i . 



Perigea illecta, Walker, id. p. 684, j . 



Hadena spargens, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 739 (1865), ? . 



Iladena taprobane, Felder et Rogenli. Novara Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 110, fig. 3 (1874), 9. 



Forewing dark cinereous-brown or vinaceous-brown ; numerously speckled with 



