196 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



and submarginal sinuous lines very indistinct. Tarsi dark brown, with white 

 bands. 



Expanse y^ inch. 



Genus MA.TELLA. 



Forewing longer, narrower, with the exterior margin more even, and less 

 augulated, than in typical Bgnasia : hindwing not so broad, exterior margin more 

 oblique, less sinuous. Venation similar. Antennse slender, with extremely fine 

 scarcely-perceptible lashes ; second joint of palpi longer, of equal width throughout 

 its length, very laxly squamose ; third joint very slender and thickly tufted at its 

 base ; legs slender; all the tarsi naked. 



Type, M. accingalis. 



MATELLA ACCINGALIS (Plate 172, fig. 7, $ ). 

 Egnasia accingalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 218 (1858), $ . 



Male. Brownish-ochreous. Female paler. Sparsely speckled with minute 

 brown scales : forewing with a transverse anteraedial, a medial, and a postmedial 

 uudulated Ijlackish line ; the middle diffused ; a marginal lunular line ; along the 

 outer border are some clusters of purplish-black speckled scales, of which the sub- 

 apical form a prominent blackish patch ; a semidiaphanous-white black-bordered 

 orbicular spot and an excavated reniform mark : hindwing with a semidiaphanous- 

 white blackish-bordered lobate spot at end of the cell ; an indistinct medial diffused 

 blackish line, a discal undulated slender line, and a marginal lunular line. Palpi 

 white, speckled with black ; forelegs dark brown ; hindlegs whitish, slightly black 

 speckled ; all the tarsi ochreous. 



Expanse, ^ 1, s Ifo inch. 



MATELLA PAETICIPALIS. 



Egnasia j^articipalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 218 (1858), j. 



" Female. Brownish-ochreous, partly speckled with fawn colour. Wings with 

 the submarginal line blackish, slender, hardly undulating; exterior line diffuse, 

 indistinct, contiguous to a vitreous spot, which represents the reniform mark ; 

 marginal lunules brown, slender, connected : forewings with the interior line distinct, 

 brown, hardly undulating; reniform mark excavated on the outer side, orbicular 

 forming a vitreous dot. Third joint of palpi whitish, with a slight blackish tuft 

 towards the base." 



Expanse l-h inch. 



This species is darker coloured than M. accingalis : forewing with the outer 

 line more erect and ending nearer the posterior angle, the orbicular and reniform 



