228 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



brown, speckled with red scales ; femora and tibiae reddish ; fore and middle tarsi 

 dark brown. 



Expanse IfV inch. 



MARAPANA INCONGRUALIS (Plate 177, Fig. 5). 

 Hypena incongrualls, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 232 (1858). 

 Forewing dull yellowish-ochreous, sparsely speckled with minute red scales ; 

 crossed by an antemedial, medial, and a postmedial denticulated red-speckled line, 

 each ending on the costa in a short black streak ; a submarginal and marginal row 

 of distinct black points ; cilia also slightly spotted with black and red scales ; a 

 blackish dot at base of the cell, and two larger spots at end of the cell : hindwing 

 dusky brown, speckled with ochreous at the base ; a short subaual streak, and the 

 outer border and cilia ochreous, with some marginal black points along the middle. 

 Body, palpi, and legs yellowish-ochreous; abdomen speckled with dusky brown scales 

 above ; legs with reddish-brown scales ; tarsi blackish above and with pale bands. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus OPHIUCHE. 

 Ophiuche, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 344 (1825-27). 

 Wings short : forewing triangular ; apex almost subfalcate ; cell narrow, ex- 

 tending nearly three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before 

 end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end and slightly toiiching third 

 near its base; discocellular very slender, bent near the ends, radials from the angles; 

 middle median at one-ninth before end of cell, lower at four-ninths ; submedian 

 curved : hindwing rather broad, exterior margin convex ; cell fully half the length ; 

 two sul)costals from end of cell; discocellular ontwardly oblique, bent below the 

 middle, radial from the angle; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one- 

 third. Body moderately slender ; abdomen keeled above ; head very pilose in front ; 

 palpi porrect, compressed, laxly squamose, projecting three-fourths beyond the head, 

 of nearly equal breadth throughout ; third joint one-third length of second, obliquely 

 ascending, acutely pointed at tip ; antennte crenulated, finely bipectinated to tip ; 

 legs slender, tibias laxly squamose, spurs long. 

 Type, 0. lividalis. 



OPHIUCHE CONSCITALIS (Plate 175, Fig. 4). 

 Hypena conscitalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1509 (1865). 

 Hypena perna, FelJer et Eogenh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi 120, fig. 8 (1874). 



Forewing purplish-cinereous, with the basal area below the subcostal vein 

 obliquely across the disc to the costa before the apex brownish-ochreous, the sub- 

 costal edge of which is defined by a whitish line and two equidistant black dots, the 



