278 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



and an irregular discal line, followed by a less distinct curved submarginal line, 

 and a prominent marginal line : hindwing -with a similar irregular discal line, a 

 curved submarginal line, and a prominent marginal line. Cilia pure wliite. Palpi 

 beneatli wliite ; legs whitish, fore femora and tibiae above brown ; fore tarsi with 

 brown bands. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



HEDYLEPTA STRAMINEA (Plate 180, Fig. 5). 



Ochreous-yellow : forewing with some indistinct basal reddish-ochreous spots, a 

 transverse outwardly-curved brown antemedial line, and an irregular discal line, 

 the latter bent indistinctly inward to below end of the cell and nearly touches a hmu- 

 lar mark at its end : hindwing with a brown irregular discal line, which is bent 

 indistinctly inward to below end of the cell and touches a slender streak at its end. 

 Cilia cinereous-white, with a blackish inner line. Sides of thorax, front of head, 

 palpi above, and fore tibiae ochreous ; palpi beneath and legs white ; tip of abdomen 

 reddish-ochreous and with a black spot. 



Expanse -nr inch. 



HEDYLEPTA (?) NIOBESALIS. 

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



" Pale ochraceous. "Wings with slight blackish denticulated lines ; exterior line 

 much bent ; marginal festoon black ; fringe white. Forewings subfalcate ; reniform 

 mark small, blackish. Palpi porrect, as long as the breadth of the head, third 

 joint lanceolate, nearly as long as the second. Antennse submoniliform. 



" Expanse 6 lines." 



Hah. Ceylon. 



Described hj Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. E. L. Layai'd, 



Genus GADESSA. 

 Forewing moderately long, triangular, exterior margin very oblique ; cell more 

 than half the length ; first subcostal at one-third before end of the cell ; second and 

 thu'd from angle close to end, third bifid ; fifth from the end ; discocellular concave, 

 radials from near each end ; middle median from angle close to end, lower at one- 

 third ; submedian with a slender recurved lower branch : hindwing short, broad, 

 triangular; cell one-third the length; two subcostals from the end, upper partly 

 joined to costal near the base ; discocellular concave, radial from the lower end; two 

 upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third ; a submedian and two internal 

 veins. Body rather stout, thorax robust, laxly clothed ; abdomen long, apex 

 pointed; labial palpi curved, smoothly scaled, of equal width to near the tip, 

 third joint short, bluntly pointed ; maxillary palpi short, slender ; antennte long, 



