160 TEE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



cell ; lower at one-fifth ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body stout, thickly 

 clothed ; palpi stout, obliquely ascending, compressed, laxly squamose, second joint 

 reaching level of the eyes, third joint cylindrical, about half length of the second ; 

 antennfB simple, minutely ciliated ; legs rather long, femora very pilose, middle and 

 hind tibi« minutely spined, spurs slender. 

 Tijpe, M. lunaris. 



MINUCIA DISCRIMINANS (Plate 166, Fia. 4). 

 Ophiodes discriminans. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1358 (1858). 



Male and female : forewing pale brownish-ochreous, brightest coloured externally ; 

 indistinctly speckled with a few brown scales ; transverse lines nearly obsolete, being 

 indicated only by an indistinct postmedial recurved series of speckled-brown lunules, 

 and a less distinct submarginal zigzag row, the latter ending at the upper end in two 

 brown-speckled white lunules and a few brown speckles from the apex; a marginal 

 row of indistinct brown points ; an indistinct orbicular ring-dot and a faintly defined 

 reniform mark : hindwing pale ochreous-yellow, with a broad dusky black outer 

 discal baud, which is broadest in the female. Thorax and head pale brownish- 

 ochreous, abdomen ochreous-yellow ; palpi and tarsi greyish-brown. 



Expanse 2| inches. 



MINUCIA PRTJNICOLOR (Plate 167, Fig. 3). 

 Male : forewing purple brown, slightly purplish-grey at the base and on the 

 outer border ; very sparsely speckled with darker brown scales ; crossed by an 

 indistinct brown outwardly-oblique antemedial line, and an inwardly-oblique curved 

 postmedial line, both Hues joining on the posterior margin ; a dark brown submarginal 

 duplex line, the inner border of which is strongly defined, diffused, and forming a 

 darker fascia ; a very slender brown sinuous marginal line ; orbicular defined by 

 a brown dot, reniform mark slender, indistinctly brown : hindwing pale brownish- 

 ochreous, with a broad dusky brown discal band. Thorax and head purple-brown ; 

 palpi and legs dull brown ; abdomen brov^nish-ochreous. 



Female : forewing darker coloured, with the antemedial and postmedial line 

 more distinctly defined. 



Expanse, c? 2, ? 2| inches. 



MINUCIA TRAPEZIUM. 



Ophiodes trapezium, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 231 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1360. 

 Ophisma cognata, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 958 (1865). 



Male : forewing pale olivaceous ochreous-yellow, slightly suffused with purplish- 

 ochreous, the outer border also being purplish-brown ; very sparsely speckled with 

 minute brown scales ; crossed by an outwardly-oblique antemedial slender brown 



