PYBALIDuE. 291 



EEHIMENA(?) PHYCIDALIS. 



Botys Phycidalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. xviii. p. C75 (1859). 



" Male. Cinereous-browu. Wings with a purplish tinge, except towards the 

 base, and with a rather broad yellow black-bordered middle band ; submarginal line 

 and marginal points black : forewings with a lai'ge luteous costal subapical patch." 



" Expanse 8 lines." 



Hob. Ceylon. 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. E. L. Layard. 



Genus COPTO BASIS. 



Coptohasis, Lederer, Tyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 429 (1863). 



Male. Forewing somewhat long, rather broad, costa arched towards the end, 

 apex pointed, exterior margin very slightly oblique and convex ; cell half the length; 

 first subcostal emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, second free, third bifid, 

 fifth from the end ; discocellular outwardly oblique, slightly concave, radials from 

 near middle and lower end ; middle median from angle close to end of cell, lower at 

 one-sixth ; submedian waved near the base, with a very slender short recurved lower 

 branch: hindwing broad, triangular, apex obtuse, exterior margin convex; cell one- 

 third ihe length ; subcostals from the end, first partly joined to tlie costal; disco- 

 cellular deeply concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end of the 

 cell, lower at one-fourth. Body moderately slender; abdomen attenuated at the 

 apes ; tegulee clothed with broad rather long spatnlar scales ; labial palpi nearly 

 vertical, second joint extending above the vertex, laxly squamous, broad laterally, 

 truncate at the end, third joint very short, slender; maxillary ^Dalpi erect, slender; 

 antennge slender, setaceous ; legs moderately long, smooth, spurs long, slender, unequal 

 in length. 



Type, C. opisalis. 



COPTOBASIS LUNALIS. 



Boti/s lunalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 3-52 (1854). 



Boii/s Thyasalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 734 (1859); id. xix. p. 1O07. 



Coptobasis Th//asalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Mouat. vii. p. 429. 



Purple-brown, paler and somewhat genesceut-brown on some specimens, iri- 

 descent : forewing crossed by an indistinct slightly pale-bordered blackish outwardly- 

 curved antemedial line, and an irregular postmedial line, the latter bent inward below 

 end of the cell ; a white lunate spot at end of the cell, and a small punctiform spot in the 

 middle : hindwing with a similar irregular discal line, which is bent inward to a slight 

 black streak at end of the cell. Cilia of hindwing edged with cinereous-white. 

 Abdomen with slender white bands on anal segments ; base of palpi, body beneath, 

 and legs white ; forelegs slightly ochreous above ; fore femora and tibije with 



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