112 THE LEPinOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



border ; marginal lunules dark brown ; orbicular and reniform marks hardly visible : 

 hindwings cinereous-brown. Thorax speckled with dark browu. 

 " Expanse 12 lines." 



Family CATEPHIIDJE. 



Imago of moderate size, rarely large : hindwings generally less squamose or 

 semi-hyaline at the base. Thorax much crested, abdomen slightly crested ; frontal 

 tuft prominent; antennte long. 



Genus ARGTE. 



Arete, Kollar, Hiigel's, Kaschmir,iv. p. 477 (1844). 



Cocytodes, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 41 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1122. 



Wings rather broad, very robust : forewing elongated, almost straight along the 

 costa, angular at the apex, exterior margin oblique, scalloped, posterior margin 

 convex towards the l)ase ; cell extending two-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted 

 at more than one-half before end of tlie cell, second at one-fourth, trifid, third at 

 one-third from l)ase of second, and fourth at one-third from base of third, fifth from 

 end of the cell, curved upward and joined by a short spur to the third close to its 

 base ; discocellular bent acutely inward in the middle, radials from upper end and 

 close to lower end ; middle median from angle near end of the cell, lower at one-half 

 before the end ; submedian slightly curved from tlie base : hindwing short, broad, 

 apex almost angular, exterior margin very oblique, scalloped, slightly angular at end 

 of lower median and submedian veins ; cell short, extending to one-third the length ; 

 two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular slightly concave, almost bent in the 

 middle, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower 

 at one-fifth before the end ; submedian and internal vein recurved. Body large, 

 broad, depressed, thorax densely clothed with adpressed woolly scales, abdomen 

 woolly, in the male the sixth segment with a small dorsal black nude scabrous horny 

 plate ; palpi stout, coarsely squamose, ascending to level of the eyes, third joint short, 

 thick, conical ; antennas stout, simple ; legs stout, densely clothed, all the tibias and 

 tarsi with strong lateral spines, middle and hind tibiae with long stout spurs. 



{Type, A. polygrapha.) 



AECTE CSRULEA. 

 Coeytodes cwnilea, Giienee, Noct. iii. p. 41, pi. 13, fig. 10 (1852). 



Forewing purplish ferruginous-brown, very sparsely speckled with minute blue- 

 grey scales ; crossed by an outwardly-oblique black basal and a subbasal waved line, 

 and an inwardly-oblique angular discal pale-bordered sinuous line ; between the basal 

 and subbasal lines is a confluent broad blackish waved fascia, a paler waved fascia 



