38 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Genus ASTRAPETIS. 



Astrapetis, Iliibner, Verz. bek. Sclimelt. p. 219 (1818-25). 



Hadena (part), Ochscniieimer, Sch. Eur. iv. p. 71 (1816); Treitschke ; Giu-nee; Walker. 



Dichonia (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sch. p. 217. 



Forewing moderately elongate, rather broad, exterior margin slightly scalloped ; 

 cell extending three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end 

 of the cell, second at one-eighth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, curved upwards 

 and touching third halfway between its base and the fourth ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, concave, bent near 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 waved : hindwing short, exterior margin waved, slightly scalloped ; cell 

 extending half the length ; two subcostals on a footstalk at a short distance beyond 

 end of the cell ; discocellular bent acutely before the middle, radial from near lower 

 end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Body robust, thorax stout; thorax and abdomen crested; 

 palpi porrect, short, thick, pilose beneath, third joint small, obtuse ; antenna} minutely 

 pectinated ; legs stout, pilose, spurs stout. {A. Genistce.) 



ASTRAPETIS INDISTANS (Plate 148, Fig. 5). 



Hadena indistans, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 87 (1852). 



Hadena confundens. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xi. p. 757 (1857). 



Hadena iiiextricans, Walker, id. xv. p. 1729 (1858). 



Ferruginous-brown : forewing with transverse subbasal and antemedial zigzag 

 black duplex lines, a discal denticulated duplex line, and a submarginal row of 

 lengthened black dentate streaks traversed by a pale macular line ; a broad quadrate 

 black mark below the cell ; orbicular and reniform marks indistinctly black lined, 

 the reniform mai'k sometimes with white speckles on its outer edge, intervening 

 space between the two marks blackish ; some pale-bordered blackish streaks on 

 costal border : hindwing paler brown, cinereous towards the base ; cilia pale ferru- 

 ginous. Legs with black bands. 



Expanse If to 1| inch. 



ASTRAPETIS RUPTISTRIGA. 



Hadena mptislrigu, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 739 (1865). 



" Male. Brownish-cinereous beneath : forewing black speckled, with a slight 

 purplish-chalybeous tinge ; five or six indistinct incomplete dentate brown lines-; a 

 more exterior distinct and complete brown line which is partly double ; marginal 

 lunules browu ; a broad black streak interrupted by the orbicular mark and extending 

 to the reniform ; orbicular and reniform mark large, oblique, with cinereous borders, 



