192 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



costal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth ; trifid, third 

 from near base of second, fourth at three-fifths from base of third, fifth from end of 

 the cell and slio-htly touching third near its base ; discocellular slender, concave, bent 

 at each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close to end of cell, 

 lower at two-fifths before the end ; submedian slightly curved from the base : hind- 

 wing short, quadrangular, apex convex, exterior margin angular in the middle ; cell 

 extending two-fifths the length; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocelhdar 

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

 at one-fourth before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately 

 stout, palpi long, ascending, second joint reaching above the vertex, rather broad, 

 compressed, squamose, third joint nearly half length of second, acute at the tip ; 

 antennas very minutely ciliated ; legs rather long, slender, very slightly pilose, spurs 

 long, slender. 



Type, Z. insularis. 



ZETHES DECOLOR (Plate 172, Fig. 8). 

 FociUa decolor. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxsiii. p. 1029 (1865). 



Pale purplish brownish-oclireous, sparsely speckled with minute black scales : 

 forewing crossed by a very indistinct pale brown-bordered subbasal undulated line, an 

 angulated discal duplex line, and a marginal row of black points ; a pimctiform black 

 orbicular spot and a large indistinctly-defined reniform mark : hindwing with a minute 

 black dot at end of the cell, a brown discal transverse duplex line, and a marginal row 

 of black points. Tip of paljn, and tarsi with black bands. 



Expanse If inch. 



ZETHES LINEIFEEA (Plate 172, Fig. 5). 



Ephyrodes lineifera. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1070 (1865), cJ. 

 Zethcs Sonclaiciis, Snelleu, TijJ. voor Ent. Neder. In J. 1877, p. 38, pi. 2. f. 17, ^ . 



Pale greyish-ochreous, sparsely speckled with minute black scales : forewing 

 with two black transverse subbasal inwardly-oblique sinuous lines, a discal angulated 

 duplex line, followed by a submarginal sinuous line, an intermarginal row of dots, 

 and a marginal line, in the male a longitudinal black-speckled fascia extends from 

 the base to middle of the exterior margin ; orbicular spot punctiform black ; reniform 

 mark blackish ; cilia black-speckled towards the apex : hindwing with a black speckled 

 streak at end of the cell, a transverse discal duplex line, an ill-defined submarginal 

 sinuous line, and a large spot at anal angle ; intermarginal row of dots, and a marginal 

 line. Palpi with blackish bands. 



Expanse, <5 If, 9 If inch. 



