116 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



MELIPOTIS DIVERSIPENNIS (Plate 157, Fig. 1). 



Ercheia divcrsipennis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 1108 (1857),?. 



Melipotis ambidens, Felder et Rogenh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 116, fig. 9 (1874). 

 Male and female: forewing pale violaceous ochreous-brown, sliglitly darker 

 clouded from middle of the costa and at the apex ; the veins very slenderly black 

 lined, and with a slender black streak between the outer veins, the latter streaks 

 beino- most prominent between the subcostal branches, lower medians and submedian, 

 the s°ubmedian streak extending to base of the wing, and the two last being bordered 

 by a lower parallel broader streak, a similar broad streak also extending below the 

 submedian ; across the disc are some faint traces of black zigzag Hues, which are 

 bent inward to the costa from the lower radial, and are most conspicuous at their 

 posterior end ; marginal row of black dots minute : hindwing blackish-brown, 

 cinereous-brown at the base ; with a dark inner bordered augulated discal transverse 

 whitish band, a narrow short white subapical marginal band, and another near the 

 anal angle, the latter with a round contiguous upper spot, the bordering cilia of both 

 being also white. Body violaceous ochreous-brown ; collar, tegula;, and abdominal 

 crests black streaked ; palpi with black bands, fore tibiae with slight black bands. 

 Expanse If to 1| i^ch. 



MELIPOTIS FUSIFERA. 



Achcpa fmifera. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1398 (1858). 



Male and female : forewing ferruginous-brown, with a broad violet-black anterior 

 band, curving fi^om base of the costa across the disc and upward to the apex ; base 

 of the band crossed by black sinuous hues, and the apex traversed by black streaks ; 

 a pale-bordered punctiform orbicular spot, and indistinct reniform mark ; exterior 

 border with some black speckles and a submarginal pale waved lunular line, posterior 

 border also black speckled and with sinuous streaks near the angle : hindwing 

 blackish-brown, with three lower discal white spots; subapical and anal narrow 

 interciliary band and cilia white. Body dark ferruginous-brown, palpi and legs 

 with blackish bands. 



Expanse, S 1^'-, 2 2 inches. 



MELIPOTIS PANNOSA (Plate 157, Fig. 4, $ ). 

 Ercheia pannosa, Moore, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 24. 



Male and female : forewing pale violaceous ochreous-brown ; with a violet-black 

 costal basal triangular patch, and an irregular pale-bordered apical patch, a medial 

 transverse obsolescent slender brown sinuous fascia and a curved discal sinuous line, 

 followed by a whitish submarginal line ; orbicular spot punctiform, black ; reniform 

 mark ochreous-grey and brown lined ; below the latter are some irregular brown 



