270 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



PELECYNTIS ABSISTALIS. 



Pyransta ahsi-ttalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. Til. xvii. p. 311 (1859). 



Asopia Lydialis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 374 (18o9). 



Boti/s iistalis, Lederer, Pyr. Wieu. Eiit. Mouat. vii. pp. 373, 471, pi. x. fig. 14 (1863). 



Iledyhpta ustalis, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1884, p. 37. 



Hedylt'pta pyraustalis, Snellen, Miikl. Siim.Ttra, Lep. p. 71 (1880). 



Pelccyntls ahstitalis, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 316. 



Golden-yellow: forewing crossed by a diffused blackish cupreous-brown basal, 

 antemedial, and a postmedial sinuous line, and a broad marginal partly confluent band ; 

 the middle area from below the costal border also more or less suffused with brown ; 

 a distinct brown spot in middle of the cell, and another at the end : hindwing with a 

 similar broad brown marginal band, and a zigzag middle band. Cilia cinereous- 

 white, with a brown inner line. Thorax and abdomen brown speckled, darkest in 

 the female; abdomen with slender white bands; tegulse tipt with brown; palpi and 

 fore tibia3 with a brown band. 



Expanse tV inch. 



PELECYNTIS AMYNTUSALIS (Plate 178, Fig. \2,S). 

 Botys Amyntusalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 662 (1859). 

 Asopia Critheisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 939 (1859). 

 Botys semizebralis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1407 (1865). 



Pale straw-yellow, brightest in the female : forewing crossed by an outwardly- 

 curved antemedial purplish cinereous-brown line, a medial line which is joined to a 

 quadrate mark at end of the cell, and an angulated postmedial line, confluent with 

 which is a similar coloured apical and posterior marginal patch, a brown dot in 

 middle of the cell, some basal costal streaks and a dot near base of posterior margin : 

 hindwing crossed by a similar brown inner line which is joined to a mark at end of 

 the cell; an angulated discal line, and an apical and subanal patched marginal band. 

 Cilia whitish, with a slender brown inner line. Spots on thorax and tuft on abdomen 

 brown ; palpi tipt with brown ; fore tibiiB with a brown band. 



Expanse tV to tIt inch. 



PELECYNTIS DISTOETA (Plate 180, Fig. 7). 

 ^nescent yellow : forewing with two asnescent purplish-brown transverse sub- 

 basal zigzag streaks, a curved antemedial broad line, and a distorted angular post- 

 medial broad hue, the latter curved inward to below the cell and there confluent with 

 a large reniform mark, which almost touches the costa ; a broad geuescent purpUsh- 

 brown marginal band extends from the postmedial line enclosing a yellow streak 

 before the apex, this band also running along the posterior margin to the antemedial 

 line : hindwing with an ieuescent-browu mark at end of cell, from which descends a 



