174 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



line ill front of tlie cell, and a black patch from tlie inner line below the cell ; a 

 slight blackish orbicular spot, and a white dot at base of the wing : hindwing dusky 

 brown, with two slightly paler fasciaa from anal angle ; cilia at apex and anal angle 

 whitish. Body greyish ferruginous-brown ; three black spots on front of thorax ; 

 palpi blackish at the base ; legs with pale bands. 

 Expanse If inch. 



ANEREUTHINA CURVIFERA (Plate 170, Fig. 4). 

 HypcBtia curvifera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1412 (1858), J. 



Male. Dark purplish ferruginous-brown, transversely flecked with indistinct 

 blackish strigfe ; crossed by an indistinct blackish subbasal sinuous line, a recurved 

 autemedial line, and a discal line which is deeply angulated at end of the cell ; the 

 interspace and outer borders of the two latter lines clouded with darker brown ; an 

 indistinct black orbicular spot, and a white dot at base of the wing : hindwing dusky 

 brown, with two paler fasciaa from anal angle ; cilia at apex and anal angle whitish. 

 Body dark blackish ferruginous-brown ; thorax with a black spot in front and one 

 on each side; palpi black at the base; legs with pale bands. Female: forewing 

 uniformly darker brown ; the discal line only indistinctly visible ; the outer margin 

 flecked with zigzag disposed pale strigaa : hindwing as in male. 



Expanse, S If, ? 1| inch. 



Genus ANSA, 

 Ansa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1731 (1858). 



" Male. Wings moderately broad : forewings straight along the costa, nearly 

 rectangular at the tips, slightly denticulated and moderately oblique along the 

 exterior border. Body stout ; palpi long, porrect, second joint slightly pilose, hardly 

 curved, third joint linear, somewhat shorter than second ; antennae hardly creuulated, 

 with very fine setse ; thorax with elevated tegulge ; abdomen slightly crested at the 

 base ; legs stout, very densely tufted with long hairs." 



ANSA FILIPALPIS. 



Ansa filipalpis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1731 (1858),t?. 



'* Male. Black, varied with ferruginous ; cinereous beneath : forewings ferru- 

 ginous, speckled with black, and with numerous transverse undulating and denti- 

 culated black lines ; submarginal points black, with pale marks : hindwings cinereous. 

 Abdomen cinereous. 



" Exjjanse 16 lines." 



