180 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



from end of cell and slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular inwardly- 

 oblique, convex, radials from upper end and near lower end ; middle median from 

 angle close to end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half ; submedian recurved : hindwing 

 short, broad, exterior margin convex; cilia broad; cell extending one-third the 

 length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, concave, 

 radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-fifth ; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout, thorax laxly clothed ; 

 palpi ascending, thick, second joint reaching vertex, squamose, third joint short, 

 thick, conical ; antennge simple ; fore and hind legs and middle femora thickly pilose, 

 middle tibiiB thick, compactly pilose, spurs long. 

 Type, C. Mygdon. 



CHALCIOPE MYGDON. 



Phalcena Noctua Mi/gdon, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 94, pi. 156, fig. g (1779). 



Chalciope Mygdon, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 268. 



Granwwdes Mygdon, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 278; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1441. 



Forewing pale purpurescent greyish-brown ; with a very dark brown oblique 

 basal band, and a triangular discal band, the two bands being divided by an 

 outwardly-oblique narrow brownish-white band, the discal band also having a slender 

 brownish-white border on its upper and outer margin ; a dark brown oblique streak 

 from the apex, below which is a marginal row of black-tipt pale points : hiudmng 

 pale brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above dark brown ; abdomen pale brown. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



Genus FODINA. 



Fodina, Gnenee, Noct. iii. p. 274 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1437. 



Wings broad, velvety ; cilia long : forewing triangular, acute at the apex, exterior 

 margin oblique, even, slightly convex; cell extending nearly half the length; first 

 subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third 

 at one-eighth from base of second, and fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth 

 from end of cell and joined to third for a short distance near its base ; discocellular 

 concave, bent at each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close 

 to end of cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian curved : hindwing short, broad, exterior 

 margin uneven, couvexly angular at end of lower median ; cell short, broad ; two 

 subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, concave, bent near lower 

 end, radial from angle ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third ; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body somewhat slender, thorax short, tegul« 

 also short; abdomen smooth, slightly crested at base; palpi compressed, obliquely 

 ascending, rather long, second joint extending half beyond the eyes, laxly squamose. 



