56 THE LEPJDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



marginal row of black dots : bindwing tinged with pale violaceous-brown externally. 

 Body ochreous-wliite ; front of thorax, head, palpi, and legs pale brown. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus HYELA. 



Hydrdia* Guenee, Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. x. p. 227 (1841); Noct. ii. p. 234; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 



B. M. sii. p. 812. 

 Hyela, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 149 (18o0). 



Wings short, broad : forewing triangular ; cell broad, extending two-thirds the wing; 

 first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, 

 fifth from end of the cell and touching third close to its base ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, slightly concave, radials from near upper and lower end ; middle median 

 from close to end of the cell, lower at one-half before the end ; submedian slightly 

 curved : hind wing very broad ; exterior margin convex ; cell broad, extending to 

 half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, 

 concave, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from a footstalk one-third 

 beyond end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end ; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Body slender ; palpi porrect, narrow, compactly clothed, apex 

 conical ; antennse simple ; legs squamose. 



Type, H. uuca. 



HYELA CURVIFERA. 



Hydrdia curvifera, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. Srd ser. i. p. 91 (1861). 



" Female. Coffee-brown, whitish beneath. Forewings subfalcate, with a whitish 

 marginal band, which contains the brown marginal dots ; a whitish short curved 

 stripe in the disc, forming a loop with the whitish subcostal stripe, which is inter- 

 rupted and irregular exteriorly ; the inclosed space blackish streaked : hindwings 

 cinereous-brown. Head white in front ; palpi porrect, short, securiform, extending" 

 a httle beyond the head ; anteunsB smooth, short ; thorax white on each side. 



" Expanse 7 lines." 



Hab, Ceylon. 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the Saunders' Collection at Oxford 

 University Museum. 



HYELA LATIVITTA (Plate 150, Fig. 9). 

 Bankia lativitta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 373. 



Forewing pale chestnut-brown ; basal third very obliquely white, the border 

 defined by an irregular slender dark brown line; an oblique discal white band 

 extending from posterior angle to the costa and enclosing two black discocellular 



* Previou.-^ly used by Hubner for a genus of Lepidoptera. 



