252 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



to half the lengtli ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular slender, radial 

 from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third. Body 

 rather short ; frontal tuft triangular ; palpi long, second joint stout, porrect, pilose 

 above, third joint lanceolate, half length of second, projected upward ; antennte 

 simple ; legs stout, laxly squamose. 

 Ty2)e, C. retatalis. 



CHUSARIS RETATALIS. 



Clmsaris retatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 215 (1858). 

 Bleptina spinxatalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1163 (1865). 



Cinereous, sparsely speckled with minute brown scales : forewing with some 

 pale and dark brown points on the costal edge ; crossed by an antemedial and a 

 medial brown duplex lunular band, a submarginal denticulated pale-bordered line, 

 which has a broad brown dilated costal end ; a marginal row of black points ; a brown 

 orbicular and reniform mark, and a black dot at base of the wing : hindwing with 

 ill-defined brown short lunular bands above the anal angle. Tip of palpi, and tarsi 

 with blackish bands ; palpi brown beneath. 

 Expanse tV inch. 



CHUSARIS PUNCTILINEALIS, 

 Clmsaris pimctilinealis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1175 (1865). 

 Pale purplish-cinereous : forewing crossed by a waved antemedial whitish lunular 

 line, a recurved postmedial macular line composed of blackish dentate spots with 

 white tips, followed by a marginal row of white-pointed black dots; a brown 

 orbicular dot, and a whitish-bordered black bipupilled reniform mark : hindwing 

 with a black dot at end of the cell, a curved discal macular line of white-tipt black 

 dentate spots, and marginal line. Abdomen ochreous-brown ; tip whitish. 

 Expanse yV inch. 



Genus LUCERIA. 

 Lnceria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 853 (1859). 

 Forewing elongated, moderately broad, rectangular at the tips, costa very 

 slightly convex, exterior margin rather oblique; cell extending three-fifths the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, 

 fifth from end of the cell, free ; discocellular bent near each end, radials from the 

 angles ; middle median at one-third before end of the cell, lower at two-fifths : hind- 

 wing somewhat produced apically, exterior margin convex in the middle ; cell more 

 than half the length ; two subcostals from beyond end of the cell ; discocellular slightly 

 bent in the luiddle, radial from below the angle ; two upper medians from end of the 

 cell, lower at one-third. Body moderately stout, short; palpi long, second joint 

 porrect, broad, compressed, projecting two-thirds beyond the head, pilose, third joint 



