146 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



before end of the cell, second at one-eiglith, trifid, tlnrd at one-tenth from base of 

 second, and fourth at one-half from liase of third, fifth from end of cell and joined to 

 third at its base; discocellular inwardly oblique, concave, bent at each end, radials 

 from the aujjles : middle median at one-fifth before end of cell, lower at one-half ; 

 submedian straight : hindwing in male narrow, triangular, exterior margin short, very 

 oblique, and with three broadly scalloped angles ; base of the costa folded over on to 

 the upper side for a short distance and slightly inflated, and covering a glandular 

 patch of short compactly disposed silky filaments ; cell very short, distorted, costal 

 and subcostal erect, discocellular short, also erect, radials ascending close to costal ; 

 median branches emitted together close to base, upper branch curved upward to 

 margin close to radial, middle branch extending to apex of the wing, and lower branch 

 to the middle ; submedian and internal veins wide apart. Female : hindwing broad, 

 exterior margin convex, denticulated ; veins in their normal positions ; two subcostals 

 from end of cell ; cell extending one-fourth the length ; discocellular concave, radial 

 and upper median from end of cell, middle median from close to end, lower at nearly 

 one-half ; submedian and internal straight. Body moderately stout, abdomen smooth, 

 not extending beyond hindwings ; palpi ascending, first and second joints compressed, 

 laxly squamose, third joint long, very slender, nearly as long as second; antennae 

 long, slender, setaceous; legs rather long, slender, slightly pilose, fore and middle 

 tibise slightly spinous ; spurs long. 

 Type, A. hieroglyphica. 



ARGIVA HIEROGLYPHICA (Plate 16,5, Fig. 2, 2a, $ ?). 

 Phalmna Noctua hkro</li/plnca, Drury, Exot. Ins. ii. p. 3, pi. 2, f. l,^ (1773) ; Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 



54, fig. 2. 

 Noctua hieroglyphica, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. iii. 2, p. 11. 

 Argiva hieroglyphica, Hiibnei-, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 272 ; Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 179 ; Walker, Catal. 



Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1302. 

 Erehus hieroglyphica, Westwood's Edit. Drury, Ins. ii. 3, pi. 2, f. 1, (? . 

 Phal. Noct. Hermonia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 119, pi. 174, fig. e (1779), $. 

 Phal. Noct. Mygdonia, ih. fig. f (1779), $ . 

 Noctua Ulula, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 211 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 136; i:nt. Syst. iii. 2, p. 211. 



Male. Violet-brown ; crossed by numerous short very indistinct blackish- 

 brown strigce : forewing with the strigte darkest and confluent across the subbasal 

 and discal area, thus more or less forming broad indistinct fascite; with a more 

 distinct subbasal transverse sinuous line, and an oblique medial line, the latter 

 curving upward and outward, forming a large ocellus beyond the cell, from the lower 

 median to the subcostal, and broadly inward to below end of the cell, the end being 

 dilated and bilobed, the dilated end also liaving a purplish-ferruginous centre and 



