118 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



large more or less prominent purplisli--wliite brown-speckled triangular costal patch ; 

 below the orbicular is also a black ringlet mark : hindwing white, with a broad blackish 

 outer band bordered by a narrow white subapical and subanal spot ; the ciha border- 

 ing the spots being also white. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs olivaceous greyish- 

 black; abdomen cinereous-brown, dorsal tufts blackish in male, ferruginous in 

 female ; anal tuft blackish ; tarsi with black and pale bands. 

 Expanse lA to Itu inch, 



ANOPHIA DIPHTEEOIBES (Plate 159, Fig. 6,9). 



Male and female : forewing dull olive-grey ; crossed by two basal sinuous incom- 

 plete black Hues, an entire antemedial line, two discal and a submarginal denticulated 

 line, followed by a marginal dentated lunular line ; an oval black orbicular ringlet 

 mark, and an irregular- shaped reniform mark, the reniform mark being continued 

 upward to the costa, and the orbicular joined beneath to a larger black ring mark : 

 from the lower riuglet a short blackish streak extends to the discal line; all the 

 markings edged with white speckles, and the costal end of the markings dilated and 

 almost confluent ; cilia alternated with greyish-black and white : hindwing with white 

 basal medial area; the costal border and broad outer band black; ciha below the 

 apex, before anal angle, and on abdominal margin also white. Thorax, head, and 

 palpi olivaceous greyish- white ; collar and teguliB black streaked ; palpi with black 

 bands ; legs with black bands, abdomen greyish-brown, tip blackish. 



Expanse lyV to IfV inch. 



Genus MOSARA. 

 Mosara, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het, B. M. v. p. 1032 (1855). 

 Male : forewing rather short and broad ; costa slightly arched at the base, apex 

 not acute, exterior margin shghtly obhque, very convex hindward and at the angle, 

 posterior margin very convex at the base ; cell extending to half the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, 

 third at one-fifth from base of the second and fourth at one-third from base of the 

 third, fifth from end of the cell and slightly touching the third near its base ; disco- 

 cellular concave, radials from upper end and near lower end ; middle median from 

 angle close to end of the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian much recurved : hind- 

 wing short, rounded externally, distorted, folded longitudinally in a recurved line 

 from the Ijase to exterior margin ; the costa beneath with a subbasal tuft of raised 

 scales, and with a band of raised scales extending from middle of the costa obliquely 

 across the disc to exterior margin above the fold ; cell extending to one-third the 

 length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, outwardly 

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



