272 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth. Body moderately stout; palpi 

 obli(|uely porrect, projecting half beyond the head, compressed, laterally broad, com- 

 pactly squamous, tip broad, truncate ; antennas finely ciliated ; legs long, smooth, 

 tibiae rather thick, spurs slender, unequal in length. 

 Type, B. inspersalis. 



BOCCHORIS INSPERSALIS. 



Botys inspersalis, Zeller, Lep. Microp. Caifr. Kougl. Vet. Akad. Ilaudl. 1852, p. 33. 



^diodes inspersalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 434 (1863). 



Besmia afflictalis, Gueaee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 190, pi. 5, fig. 4 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 



vii. p. 344 (1859). 

 ^diodes hootanalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1298 (1865). 



Cupreous-black : f orewiug with a pure white subbasal dot below the cell, a spot 



near end of the cell, a larger spot beyond, contiguous to which is a small dot below 



it and a costal spot above it : hindwing with a pure white basal spot, a similar sized 



discal spot, a small spot between it and the outer margin, and a short streak above 



anal angle. Cilia of both wings pure white at the anterior and posterior ends. A 



white baud across base of thorax, and a slender band on the abdomen ; base of palpi, 



pectus, and bands on legs white. 



Expanse -| inch. 



Genus DANAGA. 



Male. Wings short : forewing rather broad ; cell extending half the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted close to eud of the cell, second trifid, fifth from end ; disco- 

 cellular concave, outwardly oblique, radials from near the ends ; two upper medians 

 from end of cell, lower at one-fourth : hindwing somewhat quadrate, apex convex, 

 exterior margin convexly angular in the middle ; cell one-third the length at its 

 upper end, and half the length at its lower end; subcostals from end of cell ; disco- 

 cellular very oblique, slightly concave, radial and two upper medians from end of 

 the cell, lower median at one-fourth. Body moderately stout ; labial palpi small, 

 obliquely ascending, smoothly squamous, not reaching the vertex, third joint smooth, 

 short, pointed ; maxillary palpi ascending, short ; antennjB in the male thick, 

 coarsely serrated and finely pectinated, bent at one-third from the base, thickened 

 and tufted at two-thirds its length ; antennas slender and simple in the female ; legs 

 very long, slender, spurs long, equal in length. 



Tijiw, D. concisalis. 



DANAGA CONCISALIS (Plate 179, Fig. 3, <?). 

 Besmia concisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 345 (1859). 

 Dark purplish-brown : forewing partly yellowish along the costa ; crossed by an 

 indistinct antemedial and a postmedial black undulated denticulated _line, both lines 



