52 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



and fourth at equal distances from base of second, fifth curved upward from end of 

 the cell and touching the third close to its base ; discocellular concave, slightly bent 

 near its lower end ; upper radial from end of the cell, lower from angle of disco- 

 cellular ; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from 

 the end, lower at some distance before its end : hindwing triangular, rather broad 

 and short : costa nearly straight, exterior margin convex and much waved, abdominal 

 margin short ; two subcostal branches emitted from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 very slender, slightly concave; radial extremely slender, emitted from middle of 

 discocellular ; two upper median branches from slightly beyond end of the cell, lower 

 fi'om one-third before its end. Body short, stout ; palpi stout, laxly squamose, apical 

 joint thick, short ; legs laxly pilose ; antennae minutely pectinated in male. 

 Type, A. Atkinsoni. 



ADISURA PALLIDA (Plate 1.50, Fig. 8). 

 AdisuTa pallida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 369. 



Male : forewing very pale purplish greyish-ochreous, with the costal edge and a 

 longitudinal fascia extending along the median and submedian to outer margin very 

 pale ochreous-brown ; a few minute black speckles on costal and posterior borders ; 

 a curved discal transverse row of minute black points ; cilia edged with white : 

 hindwing ochreous-white, with an indistinct pale brown medial submarginal fascia. 

 Underside ochreous-white. Thorax and head ochreous-grey ; palpi at the side, and 

 legs above ochreous-brown. 



Expanse \tu inch. 



Family ANTHOPHILID^. 



Imago small ; antennte short ; abdomen slender, smooth ; forewing thick ; in 

 repose forming a very inclined roof. {Htainton.) 



Larva smooth, with twelve or fourteen legs ; feeds exposed on low plants. Pupa 

 in a slight cocoon amongst moss. 



Genus ANTHOPHILA. 



Anthophila, Hubner, Tentamen, p. 2 (1806) ; Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 93 (1816). 



Porphijrinia, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 256 (1818-25). 



Eromene, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 256. 



Helioviaius,* Sodoffsky, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. pt. vi. p. 16 (1837). 



Micra* Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 225 (1841); Noct. ii. p. 241 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 



B. M. sii. p. 820. 

 Thalpochares (part), Lederer, Noct. Eur. p. 184 (1857). 



Wings small ; forewing triangular, costa straight, apex acute, exterior margin 



* Previously used. 



