290 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



radials from near eacla end ; middle median close to end, lower about one-fourtli ; 

 submedian extending upward along base of median for a short distance and thence 

 recurvino- to its ordinary position, the curved area enclosing a naked vitriouSy oval 

 space; with a slender lower branch extending to nearly half its length: hindwing 

 triano-ular apex convex: cell one-third the length ; subcostals from end ; discocellular 

 outwardly oblique, concave, radial from extreme lower end ; two upper medians from 

 extended end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; a submedian and two internal veins. 

 Body slender ; tegulte with long broad scales ; labial palpi curved upward, reaching 

 level of vertex, squamous in front, third joint short, elongate, conical, pointed ; 

 maxillary palpi slender ; legs slender, smooth, fore and middle tibi^ squamous ; spurs 

 long, slender, unequal. Antennas slender, setaceous. 



EEHIMENA PHRYNEALIS (Plate 181, Fig. 5). 

 Botys Plin/neaUs, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviil. p. 630 (1859). 

 Eehimcna dichromalis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1492 (1865). 



Purplish-cinereous : forewing crossed by a broad medial brown-bordered yellow 

 band, the inner border of which is curved, the outer border sinuous and connected by 

 an intermediate costal yellow streak to a short preapical yellow band ; cilia alternated 

 with yellow, and with a yellow inner line : hindwing pale purplish-cinereous ; cilia 

 cinereous anteriorly, yellowish posterioi'ly. Body purplish-cinereous; sides of thorax, 

 head, palpi, and streak on forelegs ochreous ; legs white. 



Expanse, ^ ? il to 44 inch. 



REHIMEKA SUBJUHCTALI3 (Plate 181, Fig. 6). 

 Botys stihjuiictalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1404 (1865). 



Purplish cinereous-brown : forewing with a yellow streak at base of the costa, 

 a constricted spot from middle of the costa, and a slender costal streak beyond, 

 followed by a constricted streak before the apex. Cilia edged with white. Legs 

 whitish; fore and middle tibiee with a brown band. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



EEHIME]!fA(?) INCISALIS (Plate 181, Fig. 1). 

 Boiys in(s)c;sa!is. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1410 (1865). 



Forewing bluish purple-brown, iridescent ; with a golden-yellow dentate costal 

 and oblique exterior marginal band : hindwing pale dull golden-yellow, the outer 

 border tinged with purple-brown. Cilia yellow. Thorax and head bluish purple- 

 brown ; abdomen dull golden-yelloAV ; palpi, fore, and middle legs above, golden 

 yellow; body and fore and middle legs beneath, and hiud legs entirely white. 



Expanse 1 to If inch. 



