238 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



end of the cell, and two transverse discal fasciie. Body, palpi, and legs dark ochreous- 

 brown ; legs with pale bands. 

 Expanse yV to 1 inch. 



HYDEILLODES GRAVATALIS (Plate 177, Fig. 12). 



Bocana gravatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 175 (1858). 



Ecliana Tcnnentii, Felder et Rogeuh. Nov. Voy. Lep. v. pi. 120, fig. 1 (1874), $ . 



Male and female. Purplish-brown : forewing with a transverse indistinct pale 

 ochreous subbasal and an antemedial line, and a prominent pale ochreons postmedial 

 line, the latter being dilated from the lower median vein and forming a broad patch 

 to the costa, its inner edge joining a black lunate streak at end of the cell ; a distinct 

 pale submarginal denticulated line, and a mai-ginal row of black points : hindwing 

 paler ; with traces of a darker streak at end of the cell, and transverse discal fascia. 

 Body, palpi, and legs purplish-brown ; legs with prominent pale bands. 



Expanse ttt to 1 inch. 



Genus HELIA. 



Helia, Guenee, Duponchell's Catal. Meth. Lep. Eur. p. 214 (1844) ; Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 75. 

 Epizeuxis (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 346. 



Forewing rather long and narrow ; cell three-fifths the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-seventh, trifid, fifth from 

 end and slightly touching third close to its base ; discocellular concave, radials 

 from near each end ; middle median at one-eighth, lower at one-half; submedian 

 recurved from the base : hindwing rather broad ; cell half the length ; subcostals 

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

 from end, lower about one-half. Body laxly squamous ; palpi long, narrow, com- 

 pressed, curved upward, second joint reaching above vertex, third joint half length 

 of second, slender, acute at tip ; antennse pectinated to tip, the branches ciliated ; legs 

 squamous ; fore tibise short, stout, middle and hind legs long, spurs long and slender. 



Type, H. Calvarialis. 



HELIA LUNIFERA. 



Female. Ochreous-white : forewing crossed by a basal, an outwardly-curved 

 antemedial, and a waved postmedial brown band, each with blackish-speckled borders; 

 followed by a prominent submarginal series of white-bordered black dentate spots, 

 and a marginal lunular line ; the area between the middle bands and also between 

 outer band and exterior margin ochreous-brown ; a prominent white lunular spot at 

 end of the cell : hindwing ochreous-brown, with two pale-bordered blackish-speckled 

 angular lines from the anal angle ; marginal lunular line brown. 



Abdomen brown at the tip ; palpi and legs brown. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



