66 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately 

 stout, thorax crested, abdomen with lateral tufts at the apex in male ; palpi porrect, 

 second joint thick, squamose, extending beyond the head, third joint long, cylindrical, 

 of the same length as second; antennte serrated and pectinated to half its length 

 in male, simple in female; legs stout, pilose, spurs long. {Type, E. adulatrix.) 



EUTELIA FAVILLATRIX. 



Eutelia favillatrix, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1778 (18.58). 



Pale brownish-cinereous : forewing lilacine-grey along the costa ; crossed by 

 very indistinct basal undulated blackish lines, a curved white-bordered black duplex 

 medial line, and a recurved discal sinuous duplex line, followed by an outer discal 

 recurved single line, and a zigzag submarginal line ; reniform spot red, bordered by a 

 white line ; a pale ochreous-white patch at the apex : hindwing pale cinereous, with 

 Ijrownish veins and marginal border. Thorax with reddish bands ; abdomen with 

 some metaUic-blue scales at the base, palpi and legs with blackish bands. 



Expanse tu inch. 



EUTELIA CINCTIPALPIS. 



Eutdia cinctipalpis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. .xxsiii. p. 820 (1863). 



" Female. Pale cinereous, slightly tinged with ferruginous ; dark cinereous 

 beneath : forewings with a brown dot in the disc, and with four exterior denticulated 

 brown lines ; a brown irregular submarginal band ; marginal line brown ; exterior 

 border slightly convex, very oblique : hindwings with lines somewhat like those of 

 the forewings, but less distinct. 



"Expanse 18 lines." 



Genus YARNIA. 

 Varnia, Walker, Joiun. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 69 (1864). 



Porewing short, triangular, moderately broad at the end, costa arched towards 

 the apex, exterior margin angular below the middle, scalloped below the angle ; cell 

 extending beyond half the length ; subcostals free, first emitted at nearly one-half 

 before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, third and fourth at equal distances from 

 the second, fifth from end of the cell; discocellular bent near each end, concave in 

 the middle, radials from the angles ; middle median from one-fifth before end of the 

 cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian very concave tow^ards the base : hindwing short, 

 broad, exterior margin convex, scalloped ; cell broad, extending to half the length ; 

 costal vein much recurved ; subcostal touching the costal before end of the cell ; two 

 subcostals from end of the cell; discocellular bent in the middle, convex at the ends, 

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



