274 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



incomplete subbasal, a medial, and an undulated discal slender blackish band, 

 followed by an irregular marginal band which is broadest below the apex and at the 

 posterior angle ; a black-lined orbicular mark in middle of the cell, and a reniform 

 mark at its end, both being joined at their lower end by the discal band : hindwing 

 crossed by a blackish medial, and an undulated discal band, followed by a marginal 

 band which is broadest at the apex and at the anal angle. Cilia with a blackish 

 inner line. A black band across the thorax, on segments of abdomen, and on anterior 

 tibia3. Antennge in male bent at one-third from the base, and tufted at two-thirds its 

 length, shaft slightly serrated and very finely pectinated. 

 Expanse, <? 1%, 2 r? inch. 



NACOLEIA TIASALIS. 



Botys Tiasalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 994 (1859). 



Ochreous. Wings brown speckled : forewing with a transverse brown-speckled 

 basal mark, an antemedial line, and an irregular discal line, the latter curved inward 

 to below the cell, followed by marginal points ; a brown-speckled orbicular and 

 a reniform mark. Palpi and legs with brown bands. 



Expanse tu inch. 



Genus SAME A. 



Samea, Gueiiee, Delt. et Pyial. p. 193 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 349 (1859); 

 Lederer, Pyial. Wieu. Eut. Monat. vii. p. 378. 



Forewing elongated, rather narrow, triangular, apex acute, subfalcate ; exterior 

 margin very oblique ; cell three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fifth 

 before end of the cell, second trifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular concave, radials 

 from close to each end ; middle median fi'om close to end of cell, lower at one-fifth ; 

 submedian recurved : hindwing rather narrow, apex produced, acute, exterior margin 

 very oblique, undulated ; cell broad, about half the length ; subcostals from the end, 

 upper branch extending half its length along the costal ; discocellular concave, radial 

 from extreme lower end ; middle median close to end, lower at one-third. Body 

 rather slender ; abdomen of male furnished with a curled tuft of hairs on each side 

 towards the apex ; labial palpi short, oblique, laxly squamous, third joint very short, 

 truncated; maxillary palpi minute; antennae pubescent in male; legs slender, 

 smooth, spm'S long. 



Type, S. Ecclesialis. 



SAMEA GRATIOSALIS. 

 Samea r/ratiosalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 357 (1859), J", 



Male. Yellow, irregularly speckled and clouded with crimson : forewing with a 

 short medial and discal irregular macular vitreous-white band, and a small similar 



