186 



THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



inwardly-oblique, concave in middle, bent at each end, radial from the angles ; middle 

 median from close to end of the cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian slightly curved 

 from the base : hindwing short, broad, triangular, exterior margin convex posteriorly ; 

 cell short, less than one-third the length; two subcostals from end of the cell; 

 discocellular concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of 

 the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body slender ; 

 palpi vertical, second joint clothed with thick short hair, third joint pointed, about 

 half leno-th of second ; antennas minutely ciliated ; legs slender ; femora and tibi» 

 clothed with short thick hair beneath ; tarsi long ; spurs slender. 

 Tyiye, T. Hyppasia. 



TRIGONODES HYPPASIA. 



PhahTita Noctua Hyppasia, Cramer, Pap. Esot. iii. p. 99, pi. 250, fig. e (1782). 



Trigonodcs Hi/ppasia^ Gucnee, Noct. iii. p. 283 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1450. 



Noctua Hi/patia, Fabricius, Eut. Syst. iii. 2, p. 98 (1794). 



Chalciope Ilypasia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 268. 



Phal. Noctua Deliana, Stoli, Cram. Pap. Exot. v. p. 160, pi. 36, fig. 4 (1791). 

 Forewing pale violaceous greyish-brown ; with a dark brown triangular patch 

 below the cell, and a smaller patch in the disc, each with an ochreous-white bordering 

 hne on the lower side, the intervening oblique space between the patches also mostly 

 ochreous-white; a submarginal dark brown undulated fascia bordered outwardly by 

 a pale line : hindwing dusky greyish-brown ; with a darker narrow discal and a broad 

 submarginal fascia. Body, palpi, and legs pale greyish-brown. 

 Expanse If to If inch. 



Genus ACANTHOLIPES. 



Acantholipes, LeJerer, Noct. Eur. p. 198 (1857). 

 Microphysa (part), Boisduval. 



Wings small : forewing elongated, narrow ; cell extending half the length ; first 

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

 from close to base of second, fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from end 

 of the cell, and touching third close to its base ; discocellular oblique, radials from 

 close to each end; middle median from near end of the cell, lower at one-third; 

 suljmedian straight : hindwing rathei- long, exterior margin and anal angle very 

 convex ; cell one-third the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 concave, radial from near lower end; two upper medians from beyond end of the 

 cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 small; palpi porrect, broad, second joint projecting much beyond the front, laxly 

 squamose, third johit minute; antennas setose; legs long, squamose, middle and 

 liind tibige spurred. 



Tyfe, A. regularis, Hiibner. 



