300 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



a slender ciuereous-brown border ; a cinereous-brown streak extending obliquely 

 below the cell from base of lower median ; a slender black submarginal line, and a 

 yellow-bordered marginal row of black dots : hindwing with a subbasal, discal, and 

 a marginal ochreous-yellow band, the two former bands with a linear black border, 

 and the latter with three white-tipt black spots in the middle. Tip of palpi and 

 forelegs cinereous -brown. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 



CATACLYSTA CONEIFERA (Plate 179, Fig. 14). 



Male. Ochreous-yellow : forewing with an inwardly-oblique white basal band, a 

 broad anteriorly-curved discal white patch which is very sparsely speckled with black 

 scales ; followed by an oblique subapical and a broken marginal metallic white wedge- 

 shaped band, each being slightly bordered with brown scales : hindv.'ing with a white 

 basal band, and a broad white discal patch, which is sparsely speckled with black 

 scales and outwardly bordered by four black marginal spots with metallic white 

 centres. Cilia brown. 



Expanse tV inch. 



CATACLYSTA ANGULATA (Plate 181, Fig. 12). 



Silky-white : forewing crossed by a slight brown inwardly-oblique antemedial 

 and a postmedial irregular line, the latter bent inward from the middle median to 

 end of the cell and terminating on middle of posterior margin, the interspace longitu- 

 dinally streaked with cinereous-ochreous, the streaks being also slightly bordered with 

 purplish-brown ; beyond is a curved ochreous fascia bordered by a slight brown 

 denticulated line, followed by a parallel blackish macular submarginal line, the 

 exterior margin being also ochreous ; each line has a blackish dilated costal end ; 

 base of the costa ochreous, crossed by a short basal and subbasal blackish streak : 

 hindwing with a cinereous-ochreous subbasal band and outer border ; the latter with 

 a marginal row of five equidistant white-bordered black spots. Fore tarsi with a 

 blackish terminal band. 



Expanse r? inch. 



Genus TALANGA. 



Forewing shorter than in Cataclysta ; cell more than half the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted about one-fourth before end of the cell, second and third from 

 angle close to the end, third bifid, fifth from the end : hindwing short, very broad, 

 triangular ; cell two-fifths the length ; discocellular outwardly oblique, concave, 

 radial and two upper medians from extreme lower end of the cell. Body slender ; 

 labial palpi obliquely ascending, rather broad, laxly clothed in front, third joint 

 minute; maxillary palpi squamous at the tip; antennae submonilifonn ; legs smooth, 

 spurs unequal. 



