46 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLOX. 



CARANDANA FASCICULOSA. 

 Acontiafasciculosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1760 (18.38). 



IMale. " White : forewings pale fawn colour beyond the middle, with a thick 

 costal tuft of curled hairs at two-thirds of the length ; a broad short black streak 

 ill the disc adjoining the tuft, in front of which the costa is slightly convex; costa 

 with black points : hindwings with black marginal points. Legs with black dots. 



" Expanse 16 lines." 



Genus PITACOTA. 



^lale : forewing elongate, costa almost straight, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 sliohtly convex, oblique, and scalloped ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before 

 end of the cell, second at one-eighth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, and touching 

 third near its base ; discocellular concave, bent near lower end, radials from upper 

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

 one-third before the end ; submedian recurved from the base : hindwing short, apex 

 and extei-ior margin convex, slightly scalloped ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular obliquely concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from 

 end of tbe cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body stout ; thorax laxly clothed ; palpi ascending, second joint rather 

 long, compactly clothed, third joint cylindi-ical, half length of second ; antennse 

 finely pectinated ; legs moderate, femora fringed beneath, spurs long. 



PITACOTA TERMINIGERA (Plate 149, Fm. 7). 

 Felinia terminigera. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1850 (1858). 



Male. Cinereous-white : forewing white, the base and obliquely across the disc 

 suffused with pale purplish-ochreous, and crossed by indistinct brownish sinuous 

 bands, the middle and apex of the wing being white : hindwing whitish, with an 

 indistinct cinereous discal baud and a marginal band. Thorax pale purpli.sh-ochreous, 

 third joint of palpi ochreous ; legs with slender blackish bands; abdomen cinereous - 

 white, tuft brownish. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Genus TARACHE. 



Tarache, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 261 (1818-25); Stephens, 111. Ilaust. iv. p. 412. 

 Acontia (part), Ochsenheimer, Eur. Schinett. iv. p. 91 (1816). 



Wings small : forewing short, triangular ; cell long, narrow, extending two- 

 thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second 

 at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell and touching third close to its base ; 

 discocellular obliquely concave, bent near each end, radials from the angles; middle 



