DYSGONIIDyE. 1«1 



third joint lanceolate, acute at tbe tip, two-thirds length of second ; antennae 

 minutely ciliated ; legs rather long, femora slightly fringed beneath, spurs long, 

 slender. 



Type, F. Oriolus. 



rODINA STOLA. 

 Fodina Stola, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 275 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1439. 



Forewing with a broad blackish-brown basal patch, which extends upward from 

 the base of the posterior margin to upper end of the cell and thence descends 

 obliquely and angularly outward to lower part of the disc, where it is acutely bent 

 inward to the posterior margin before the angle ; a similar coloured triangular patch 

 occupying the apical area from the costa to exterior margin above the posterior angle, 

 the extreme outer edge of the wing being bordered by a slender ochreous-white line ; 

 the intervening oblique band across the middle of the wing also ochreous-white and 

 slightly peckled with ochreous-brown scales ; the costal border from the base to 

 apical patch purpurescent violet-brown and speckled with lilacine scales ; cilia pale 

 greyish-ochreous : hindwing ochreous-yellow, with a broad blackish apical band, and 

 a few blackish speckles above anal angle. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above 

 purpurescent violet-brown ; a slender collar in front of thorax and edge of tegula; 

 ochreous-white ; abdomen ochreous-yellow, the basal tuft brown. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



FODINA PALLTJLA. 



Fodina pallula, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 275 (1852); Walijer, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1439. 

 Forewing dark brown, of a purphsh-ochreous tinge in some lights ; crossed by 

 an outwardly obhque medial ochreous-white narrow band, and a very slender marginal 

 band; the cilia also being ochreous-white: hindwing cupreous-brown, with au 

 ochreous-yellow transverse band extending from middle of the costa to anal angle, 

 the band being broadest in the female, with the anal eud of its outer border tipt 

 with black. Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs above dark-brown; abdomen paler 

 at the sides. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



FODINA MUNDICOLOR. 

 Grammodes mundicolor, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 973 (1865), 8 • 

 ? Grammodes notata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 39 (1794). 

 " Female. Luteous-testaceous, brighter beneath. Wings with black marginal 

 points : forewings with two black costal triangular spots, the first middle, longer 

 and more irregular than the second, which is apical. Wings beneath with a diffuse 

 blackish apical tinge. Third joint of the palpi a little less than half length of second ; 



