94 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



very obliquely concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from 

 prolonged lower end of the cell, lower median at one-fourth before the end ; sub- 

 median and internal vein straight. Body short, moderately stout ; thorax thick, 

 laxly clothed ; palpi ascending, second joint stout, of equal breadth its entire length, 

 reaching to level of the eyes, laxly squamose, third joint long, lanceolate, two-thirds 

 length of the second, antennge very long, minutely bipectinated ; legs thick, femora 

 and tibias, and hind tarsi, thickly clothed with woolly hairs. 



GIRPA INANGULATA (Plate 156, Fig. 6, 6a, $ q). 



Hulodes inangulata, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 210 (1852), $ . 



Remigia optativa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1510 (1858),^. 



Remigia optatura. Walker, id. xv. p. 1848 (1858), J . 



Remigia com.itata, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 1018 (1865), 5 . 



Hulodes wnhrosa, Walker, Cbar. of Undes. Lep. Het. p. 91 (1869), ^J. 



Male. Greyish ochreous-brown, numerously speckled with minute dark brown 

 scales : forewing with eight transverse ill-defined dark brown-speckled sinuous bands, 

 the fourth or middle band and the eighth or submarginal being the most distinct and 

 broadest ; orbicular mark small, oblique, reniform mark large, botli defined by a brown 

 line ; the outer lines ending on the costa in a pale yellow dot ; a marginal row of 

 white-bordered black dots : hindwiug with five transverse discal similar sinuous bands, 

 and marginal row of dots. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs, greyish ochreous-brown, 

 abdomen paler. Female. Greyish brownish-oclireous, minutely black speckled ; with 

 similar transverse markings as in male : forewing with the third, fourth, and eighth 

 band most distinct, the latter being broader, almost black and speckled with white 

 scales : hindwing with the bands more distinctly defined and slightly bordered with 

 white scales. 



Expanse If to 1| inch. 



GIRPA FRATERNA (Plate 156, Fig. 5, 5a, ,? ? ). 



Male. Greyish-brown, or greyish ochreous-brown : forewing with apparently 

 eight transverse dark ferruginous-brown sinuous bands, which are more or less 

 distinct, the three outer bands partly coalescent, and thus form a wide angulated 

 fascia ; orbicular and reniform marks ferruginous-brown ; a marginal row of black 

 dots : hindwing with a discal ti^ansverse series of similar ferruginous -brown bands, 

 and marginal dots, the outer bands partly coalescent as in forewing. Body greyish- 

 brown. Female greyish ochreous-brown, with similar transverse dusky-brown bands. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



Distinguishable from G. inangulata by the smaller size of both sexes. The male 

 also havmg a comparatively shorter forewing, and a decidedly more angular hindwiufr. 



