58 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CF.YLON. 



eud of the cell, second from close to the end, third trifid, from end of the cell, fourth 

 at one-third and fifth at one-half from base of third ; discocellular slightly concave, 

 radials from upper and lower end ; middle median from close to eud of the cell, lower 

 at nearly one-third before the end ; submedian straight : hindwing short, apex and 

 exterior margin convex ; costal vein straight ; subcostal running very close to the 

 costal ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell, upper branch extending very 

 close alongside of the costal ; cell extending to one-third the length ; discocellular 

 obliquely concave, radial from lower end ; middle median from close to end of the 

 cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. 

 Body moderately slender, abdomen slightly tufted at apex ; palpi ascending to level 

 of the eyes, fusiform, laxly squamose beneath, apex short, conical ; antennaa finely 

 bipectinated ; legs rather thick, tibice stout, clothed with strong hairy scales, middle 

 and hind tibise spurred. 



MARADANA RIVTJLATA (Plate 150, Fig. 14). 



Purplish-red : forewing speckled with black and grey scales ; crossed by an 

 antemedial and a postmedial slightly waved slender yellow baud, the inner border of 

 the bands black speckled ; a black-speckled spot at end of the cell ; a pale yellow 

 interciliary line: hindwing paler purplish-red, brownish towards the base; crossed 

 by a discal curved pale yellow slender band ; interciliary line pale yellow. Body 

 brown ; palpi brown ; legs dark purple-brown, middle and hind tarsi yellowish. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Family PALINDIIDiE. 



Wings rather broad, shining, with distinct bands, and generally with metallic 

 colours; body slender. {Walker.) 



Genus HOMODES. 

 Homodes, GuL'nee, Noct. ii. p. 280 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii.p. 852. 

 Male : forewing elongated, somewhat narrow, costa arched, exterior margin 

 very oblique, hardly convex, posterior margin rounded at the base ; cell extending to 

 half the length ; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, 

 second at one-fifth, trifid, third at one-fifth from base of the second, and fourth at 

 two-thirds from base of the third, fifth from end of the cell and joined by a short 

 spur to the third close to its base ; discocellular very slender, concave, radials from 

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

 lower at one-half before the end ; submedian very deeply curved from the base : 

 hindwing very short, triangular, apex and anal angle convex, exterior margin very 



