294 THE LEPinOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



a short blackisli-boi-clered white band from the costa before the apes, below and 

 exterior to which are three small inwardly-curved superposed spots, which approach 

 a dentate transverse white band extending from upper end of the cell to the posterior 

 maro-in, this band being continued across the hindwiug to near anal angle. Cilia with 

 an interrupted brown inner line, alternated with white on forewing, entirely white 

 on hindwiug. Bands on abdomen white ; collar, front of head, base of palpi, and legs 

 yellowish; tip of palpi and bands on forelegs blackish. 

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Genus EURRHYPARODES. 



Eurrhy parade s, Suellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1880, p. 215. 

 Molyhdantha, Meyrick, Trans. Eiit. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 309. 



]\Iale. Forewing narrow, elongated, apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly convex 

 hindward ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth 

 before end of the cell, third bifid, fifth from the end; discocellular erect, radials from 

 close to each end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at nearly one-third : 

 hindwing rather long and narrow ; exterior margin convex in middle, cell one-third 

 the length ; subcostals from end ; discocellular outwardly oblique ; concave ; radial 

 and two upper medians from end of cell, lower median at nearly one-third ; apex 

 rounded. Body slender ; abdomen with a trifid anal tuft ; labial palpi porrect, 

 broad, coarsely and laxly squamous beneath, second joint truncate, third joint 

 short, cylindrical, exposed ; maxillary palpi rather large, porrect, extending to end of 

 second joint of labial, squamous ; antennae slender, minutely ciliated, slightly serrated 

 towards apex ; legs slender, smooth, spurs unequal in length. 



Tiii:ie, E. accessalis. 



ETJEEHYPARODES ACCESSALIS (Plate 179, Fig. 6). 



Isoptenjx accessalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. p. 405 (1859). 



Eurrhyparodes stihialis, Saellen, Tijd. voor Eat. 1880, p. 216; 1883, p. 134, pi. 8, fig. 3, ? . 



Male and female. Purplish cinereous-brown : forewing with a pale yellow basal 

 spot, a curved antemedial band, a large irregular oval spot extending from posterior 

 margin to end of the cell, beyond which is a small upper discal spot, their interspaces 

 Ijcing tinged with chalybcous and also speckled Avith a few slight yellow strigee ; some 

 yellow points also along the costal edge : hindwiug with the subbasal, medial, and discal 

 area irregularly blotched with pale yellow, these blotches in the female forming three 

 more or less irregular-shaped confluent patches ; the outer margin also with a few 

 slight yellow striga;. Cilia yellow, with cinereous spots. Tips of tegultB, and edge of 

 abdominal segments, palpi beneath, and legs yellow ; forelegs with cinereous-brown 

 bands. 



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