30 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



AMYNA SELENAMPHA (Plate 147, Fig. 3, Zn,S $ ). 

 Amyna sdenampha, Gueiiee, Noct. i. \\ 406 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. x. p. 300; xv. 



p. 1696. 

 Alarms spoliata, Walker, ul. xiii. p. 1050 (1857), ? . 

 Hadena latipennis. Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 738 (1865), ?. 

 Aviyna ahsens, Guen. MS. Ilorsf. Coll. ? . 



Male : forewing dark cinereous-brown ; crossed by indistinct basal, subbasal, 

 and discal zigzag grey-bordered black denticulated lines, a less distinct submarginal 

 line and marginal dots ; reniform mark indistinct, either formed of grey-bordered 

 dots, or with the lower part entirely whitish : hindwing duller cinereous-brown. 

 Body dark cinereous-brown ; head in front, palpi, and legs whitish-ochreous and 

 black speckled ; front legs with black bands. Cilia edged with cinereous. 



Female darker coloured, vinaceous-brown, the transverse lines more distinct and 

 with more or less prominently broader speckled borders. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



Genus RADINACRA. 



Eadinacra, Butier, Aunals of Natural History, 1878, p. 161. 



" Closely allied to Caradrina, from which it may be distinguished by the great 

 length of the apical joint of the palpi, and the great development of the anal tuft 

 and appendices of the male." 



(Type, R. paljMlis.) 



RADINACRA PLACIDA (Plate 147, Fig. 4, ^ ). 



Male and female : forewing ochreous-brown ; crossed l)y an indistinct subbasal, 

 an antemedial, and a medial black line, a discal and a submarginal blackish speckled 

 line, the discal line denticulated, the middle line broadest ; a small black orbicular 

 spot, and indistinct blackish reniform mark : hindwing whitish, veins pale brown. 

 Body ochreous-brown ; palpi with a broad black band ; legs pale ochreous-brown 

 with blackish tarsal bauds. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Described from specimens obtained from the late Dr. Thwaites' Collection. 



RADINACRA RENALIS (Plate 147, Fig. 4o). 

 Female : forewing dark cinereous-brown ; crossed by a subbasal, an antemedial 

 and a medial waved black line, the latter line the broadest, a discal denticulated black 

 line with white tipt points, a less distinct submarginal line, and a marginal row 

 of white dots ; each line ends on the costa in a pale ochreous spot ; within the cell 

 between the two inner lines is a pure white-speckled spot ; reniform mark composed 

 of a pure white or ochreous-white central spot and black border with two or three 



