194 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



fascia. Thorax, and crest, and Ijase of abdomen, head, palpi, forelegs, and all the 

 tarsi speckled with dark purple-brown ; legs and tarsi also with white terminal 

 bands. 



Expanse IJ inch. 



ZETHES RENALIS (Plate 172, Fig. 12). 



Forewing pale ferruginous-brown, crossed bj an inwardly-oblique pale bordered 

 blackish subbasal and antemedial line, both of which are bent inward to the costa 

 from tlaesubcostal vein ; a similar dorsal line, which is acutely angled outward at the 

 upper median, followed by a sinuous submarginal line and an intermarginal row of 

 lunular spots ; a pale-bordered brown reniform mark at end of the cell ; from the 

 costa before the submarginal line is a greyish-white fascia ; the lines also bordered 

 outwardly with darker ferruginous-brown : hindwing dusky ferruginous-brown, paler 

 at the base in the female ; crossed by two or three short waved slender pale lines from 

 the anal angle, followed by an intermarginal row of black spots. Tarsi with dark 

 brown bands. 



Expanse $ ^ \ inch. 



Genus EGNASIA, 

 Egnasia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 216 (1858). 



Wings short : forewing broad, costa slightly arched from the base, apex acute, 

 exterior margin oblique, sinuous, angulated outward in the middle ; cell extending to 

 half the length ; first subcostal emitted at more than half before end of the cell, 

 second at one-fourth, trifid, third at one-fourth from base of second, and fourth at 

 three-fourths from base of third, fifth from end of cell, and slightly touching third 

 near its base ; discocellular slender, concave, bent near lower end, radials from upper 

 end and lower angle ; middle median from angle near end of the cell, lower at more 

 than half before the end ; submedian much curved : hindwing broad, exterior margin 

 convex, acutely sinuous ; cell extending nearly half the length ; first subcostal emitted 

 at nearly one-half before end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, outwardly re- 

 curved, radial from the middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at 

 nearly one-half before the end ; submedian and internal straight. Body moderately 

 slender; palpi very long, obliquely ascending, pubescent, second joint slightly curved, 

 attenuated at its apex, third joint long, slender, lanceolate ; antenna? in the male 

 ciliated, and with long fine lashes ; legs rather long, very slightly pilose, basal joint 

 of hind tarsi also pilose above ; spurs long. 



EGNASIA BINORBICULATA (Plate 172, Fig. 6,$). 



Male. Ochreous-brown ; both wings clouded with greyish-brown apically : fore- 

 wing crossed by a blackish zigzag erect antemedial line, a medial undulated line 

 which is outwardly curved beyond the cell, followed by a similar discal sinuous line. 



