60 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



fifth from end of the cell and anastomosing with third for a short distance above its 

 base ; discocellular slightly concave, bent at each end, radials from the angles ; middle 

 median from ansrle close to end of the cell, lower at one-third before its end : hind- 

 wing longer than broad, exterior margin convex, scalloped ; two subcostal branches 

 from end of the cell, discocellular slightly concave ; radial from near lower end ; two 

 median branches from end of the cell, third at about one-fourth before its end. 

 Thorax laxly pilose ; antennse minutely bipectinate, more or less distorted and bent 

 at half its length in the male ; palpi slightly ascending, second joint laterally broad, 

 widest and pointed in front, pilose, third joint long, slender, cylindrical ; femora, 

 tibijB, and fore tarsi densely and laxly clothed with hair in the male, less so in the 

 female, spurs strong. 

 Type, C. Pteridis. 



CALLOPISTRIA RECTJRVATA (Plate 151, Fig. 1, ^). 

 Callopistria recurvata, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 144 (1882). 



Forewing dark rufous-brown, veins lined with silvery-white ; some silvery-white 

 bordered black subbasal transverse zigzag lines ; a silvery- white antemedial straight 

 duplex line, which is bent outward at the median vein, lunate orbicular and reniform 

 marks, a recurved postmedial pale bordered duplex line, and zigzag short streaks 

 below the apex ; the basal, costal, and apical interspaces between the veins blackish- 

 brown, the discal area brightest and traversed by a black sinuous line ending in a 

 white spot beyond lower end of the cell ; two black-bordered white zigzag lines below 

 the apical streak : hindwing brown, with paler interciliary line. Thorax rufous- 

 brown, collar black streaked ; abdomen brown ; legs with blackish-speckled bands. 



Expanse 1^ to 1^ inch. 



CALLOPISTRIA EXOTICA. 



Callojmtria exotica, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 294 (1852); W;ilker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xii. p. 865. 



Smaller than C. recurvata, and of a paler colour : forewing with the vein lines 

 indistinct, the antemedial transverse duplex line entirely convex, which gives the 

 reniform mark a wider interspace ; and the postmedial duplex line is more convexly 

 recurved in crossing the disc, the intervening area between the two lines being thus 

 conspicuously broader. 



Expanse | to 1 inch. 



Genus METHORASA. 



MetJiorasa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 374. 



Allied to Callopistria : forewing less acuminate, exterior margin less oblique and 

 with a more even cilial edge ; first subcostal branch and the lower median emitted 



