240 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



edge of the band is also bordered within by a parallel slender brown line, and the 

 outer borders of the band m the male are also broadly defined by dark purple-black ; 

 a submargiual denticulated diffused l)lack line, with inner ochreous border ; and a 

 marginal row of black points ; a black orbicular spot, and black-bordered white 

 luna°e mark at end of the cell ; hindwing pale purplish greyish-brown, with two 

 short subanal black-bordered ochreous denticulated lines, and a marginal lunular 

 line. Body, palpi, and legs dark purplish greyish-brown, base of abdomen ochreous ; 

 legs with ochreous bands. 



Expanse, $ I, ? 1 inch. 



BERTULA CONTINGENS. 

 Bcrtula contingcns, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 245 (1858). 



"Male. Cinereous- white : forewings speckled with black; lines black ; interior 

 line nearly straight and upright, abbreviated in front ; exterior line composed of 

 black marks, much bent outward ; submargiual line very diffuse and indistinct ; 

 marginal dots blackish ; orbicular and reniform marks indicated by two black dots, 

 the latter narrow : hindwings semihyaline, with brown streaks along the veins 

 towards the exterior border. Palpi long, stout, brownish, slightly inclined backward, 

 rising high above thorax, second and third joints closely conjoined ; antenna setose 

 to half the length ; thorax brown and flecked with black in front. Abdomen testaceous, 

 with some black flecks on the sides. 



" Expanse 11 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. B. L. Layard. 



Genus ECHANA. 

 Echana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 195 (1858). 

 Wings rather short : forewing very broad externally ; exterior margin slightly 

 convex; with a large subfusiform costal fold beyond end of the cell above, and a 

 corresponding depression of the wing beneath, the pouch being filled with a 

 glandular patch of hairs ; cell nearly half the length ; subcostals dislocated, bordering 

 the fold ; discocellular concave ; upper radial from below the fold near its end, 

 lower radial and two upper medians on a footstalk beyond end of the cell, lower 

 median at one-third before the end; submedian almost straight : hindwing broad, 

 exterior margin convex in tlie middle ; cell extending two-fifths the length ; two 

 subcostals on a footstalk one-fifth beyond the cell ; discocellular slender, outwardly 

 oblique, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians on a footstalk about one- 

 third beyond the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body moderately stout ; palpi compressed, curved upwards ; second joint 

 fringed in front, third joint lanceolate, nearly as long as the second, with which it forms 



