140 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Body rather slender, abdomen smooth, pointed at the tip; palpi ascending, compressed, 

 second joint laxly squamose, of equal width throughout its length, reaching the 

 vertex, third joint linear, slender, three-fourths the length of second; antennae 

 slender, simple ; legs long, slender, laxly pilose, spurs long. 

 jpyjjf, A. hypoleuca. 



AGONISTA REDUCENS (Plate 163, Fig. 3, 3a, ^ ?). 



Lijyniodcs reducens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1236 (1857), $ . 

 Lygniodes disparans, Walker, id. xv. p. 1817 (1858), 9. 



Male. "Wings purplish-brown, with blue and green reflections in certain lights : 

 forewing with indistinct traces of transverse darker brown short strigte, those on the 

 disc slightly cinereous bordered ; cilia brown : hindwing with more or less distinct 

 brown transverse strigse, those along the abdominal border being slightly bordered 

 by pale cinereous scales ; cilia and extreme marginal edge from anal angle cinereous- 

 white. Body, palpi, and legs purplish-brown. 



Female. Ochreous-brown, somewhat olivescent in some lights ; crossed by 

 numerous dark brown undulating strigae : forewing with a slight transverse darker 

 brown subbasal and a medial waved fascia, followed by a discal angulated fascia, and 

 a submargical row of white tipt black points : hindwing with a similar medial 

 transverse brown fascia, and a discal pale-bordered line, the pale border being dilated 

 at the costal end. 



Expanse, <J 2|, 9 3 inches. 



Family EREBIDiE. 



Imago generally large. "Wings with transverse lines : forewing with the 

 orbicular and reniform spots, when present, of the usual shape. Body stout; 

 antenna often ciliate, sometimes crenulate or serrated in the male ; palpi erect, apex 

 long, often spatular. {Guenee.) 



Larva cylindrical ; with sixteen legs. 



Genus OXYODES. 

 Oxyodes, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 128 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1239. 

 Forewing elongated, triangular, falcate at the tip, exterior margin slightly 

 convex posteriorly ; cell extending to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one- 

 half before end of the cell, second at one-eighth, trifid, third at one-eighth from base 

 of second, and fourth at three-fourths from base of third, fifth from end of the cell 

 and touching third near its base ; discocellular bent in the middle, radials from upper 

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

 submedian slightly curved near the base and with a very slender lower branch at 



