302 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



PARAPONYX LINEALIS. 



Parapoiii/.v linealis, Gueuee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 271 (1854). 



Oligostigma ohitalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 432 (1859). 



Wliite : forewing with an inwardly-oblique antemedial and two discal recurved 



black-bordered oclireous bands, and a similar marginal band ; the inner discal band 



enclosing a slight black-sijeckled spot at end of the cell : hindwing with three 



inner black lines, a discal and a marginal black-speckled bordered ochreous band. 



Body with black-speckled ochreous bands. 



Expanse, ^ tV, ? tu inch. 



PARAPONYX VOTALIS. 



Oligostigma votalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 433 (1859). 

 Cinereous-white : forewing with an inwardly-oblique antemedial, and a recurved 

 discal blackish-speckled duplex line, a similar sub marginal, and a marginal line; 

 the inner line joining a slight black-speckled spot at end of the cell : hindwing 

 with three inner black-speckled lines, a discal black-speckled band, a submarginal 

 and a marginal line. Cilia interlined with brown. Body with black-speckled bands. 



Expanse /« to -^ inch. 



PARAPONYX CRISONALIS. 



Hydrocampa Crisonalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. llet. B. M. xix. p. 961 (1859). 



Female. Cinereous ; very thickly and minutely speckled with brown : forewing 

 darkest ; with a very indistinct brown inwardly-curved antemedial and discal line, 

 and a narrow marginal dentated line ; between the two former lines is a recurved 

 discal yellowish band, before which is a blackish-speckled spot at end of the cell : 

 hindwing less numerously brown speckled ; with an indistinct yellowish bordered 

 medial and discal wavy band, and a slender brown marginal lunular line. Cilia pale 

 cinereous, with a slender black macular inner line. Palpi and legs pale whitish- 

 cinereous. 



Expanse tr inch. 



Genus CYMORIZA. 



Cijmoriza, Gueuee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 271 (18.34); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 455 

 (18.39). 



Male. Forewing rather long, almost rectangular at the tips, exterior margin 

 slightly angular in the middle; a swollen glandular vesicle at end of the costal 

 vein projecting slightly outward from the margin ; cell narrow, disposed towards 

 middle of the wing, more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths 

 before end of the cell, being curved downward and almost joined to end of the cell, 

 second bifid, fourth and fifth from end of cell ; discocellular slightly concave, one 

 radial from lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; 

 submedian slightly curved upward : hindwing elongate, quadrate, apex convex, 

 exterior margin convexly angulated in the middle ; cell nearly two-fifths the length ; 



