120 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



appendages tufted ; tibifB compactly pilose ; palpi porrect, laxly squamose, stouter 

 and shorter than in Eryrjia ; antennse minutely pectinate in male. Allied to Erygia. 

 Tyj)e, V. fasciata. 



VAPARA INDISTINCTA (Plate 159, Fig. 7, 5). 

 VujKira iiulistincta, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 163 (1882). 



Forewing brownish-ochreous, with two indistinct transverse basal, two medial, 

 and two discal slender dusky brown sinuose-lunular bands, and a marginal row of 

 points; a dusky brown orbicular dot and pale centred reniform mark of dusky 

 brown dots : hindwing pale ochreous-brown. Body brownish-ochreous, front of 

 thorax and bands on forelegs ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, <? 1|, ? If inch. 



Genus STICTOPTERA. 



Stictoptera, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 51 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1130. 

 Steiria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1135 (1857). 



Male : forewing long, narroAv, costa straight, slightly acuminate at the tip, 

 exterior margin very oblique, denticulated, posterior margin short, recurved; cell 

 long, narrow, extending nearly three-fifths 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 second, and fourth at three-fifths from base of third, fifth from end of 

 the cell, curved upward and joined for a short distance to the third near its base ; 

 discocellular slightly concave, radials from each end ; middle median from close to 

 end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian slightly recurved : hindwing short, 

 broad, basal area semi-transparent, apex convex, exterior margin oblique, convex ; 

 cell extending to less than half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular slightly concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from 

 extreme end of the cell, lower at one-fourth before the end ; submedian and internal 

 vein slightly recurved. Thorax large, stout, with two more or less high vertical 

 crests in front, composed of long spatular scales ; abdomen broad at the base, 

 tapering to the tip, slightly crested; palpi long, slender, porrect, squamose, second 

 joint extended beyond the head, third joint linear, two-thirds the length of second ; 

 antenna long, slender, slightly pectinated ; legs long, slender, slightly pilose, spurs 

 very long. 



STICTOPTERA VARIABILIS (Plate 159, Fig. 5,^). 

 Sicifia varialilis, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. A(k. p. 164 (1882). 

 Male. Forewing dark ferruginous-brown, with an indistinct greyish-brown 

 duplex zigzag streak extending upward from base of posterior margin to the costa, 



