202 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



compressed, first joint pilose, second joint laxly squamose at the side, pilose above, 

 ascendino- above the vertex, third joint lanceolate, squamose, two-thirds the length 

 of the second ; antennas in tlie male tufted at the base, finely ciliated, and with long 

 lashes ; le^-s strong pilose, tibias stout, basal joints of middle and hind tarsi pilose 

 above in the male ; spurs slender. 



SYMPIS- RUFIBASIS (Plate 173, Fig. 5, oa, $ q). 

 Si/mpis ru/ibash, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 344, pi. 24, lig. 1 (18o2) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 

 XV. p. 1549. 



Forewing with the basal half light-red, the outer half cuprescent-brown ; crossed 

 by an outwardly-oblique slender medial pearly-white centred black-edged band, the 

 outer edge of which is denticulated and bordered by a purple-brown fascia ; a black 

 punctiform orbicular spot, and a less defined reniform mark ; beyond the cell is a 

 red jagged spot, which in some specimens is either round, oval, slender, or obsoles- 

 cent; an indistinct brown subniarginal sinuous line : hindwing dusky-brown at the 

 base, cuprescent-brown externally, with a broad blackish fascia from the apex, and 

 crossed by a medial more or less defined narrow pale brownish-white fascia. Thorax 

 red; abdomen, head, and palpi reddish-brown; legs greyish, brown-speckled. 



Expanse If inch. 



Genus SENERATIA. 



Wings rather short : forewing somewhat broad, costa arched from the base, 

 apex acute, exterior margin almost erect, slightly convex, posterior margin long, 

 convex ; cell long, narrow, extending more than half the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at two-thirds before end of the cell, second at two-fifths, trifid, third at 

 nearly half from base of second and fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth 

 from end of cell and joined to third by a short spur at its base ; discocellular bent 

 in the middle, radials from close to each end; middle median from angle clo.se to 

 end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end; submedian much curved : hind- 

 wing broad, exterior margin very convex ; cell extending one-half the length; two 

 subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; two 

 upper medians from end of the cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian and internal 

 vein straight. Body slender, palpi obliquely ascending, very broad, compressed, 

 stout, second joint insing half above the vertex, very laxly squamose, third joint 

 linear, compressed, acute at the tip, half length of the second ; antennas in the male 

 very long, of the same length as the costa, finely bipectinated to the tip ; antennae 

 in female shorter and setaceous ; legs long ; forelegs compactly pilose, middle and 

 hindlegs slightly pilose ; spurs long, slender. 

 Ti/pe, S. prascipua. 



