308 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



series traversed by a denticulated brown line : liindwing liyaline-white, witli a broad 

 macular bordered marginal oclireous-brown band, and a transverse medial irregular 

 band, before which is a brown spot below the cell. Cilia white, spotted with brown. 

 Abdomen with white bands ; palpi white beneath ; legs brown above, with white 



bands. 



Expanse -nr inch. 



Genus LEPYRODES. 

 Lepyrodes, GM(:neQ, Delt. et Pyral. p. 277 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. p. 463 

 (1859); Leilerer, Pyral. Wien. Knt. Moiiat. vii. p. 445 (1863). 



Male. Forewing rather long, apex subfalcate ; cell three-fifths the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell ; second and third contiguous, 

 third Ijifid, fifth from end ; discocellular very slender, slightly concave, radials from 

 near the ends ; middle median close to end of the cell, lower at one-sixth ; submedian 

 nearly straight: hindwing rather narrow, exterior margin convex in the middle, 

 slio-htly sinuous ; cell one-third the length ; subcostals from end, first branch joined 

 to costal; discocellular very slender, concave, radial from lower end; two upper 

 znedians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian and internal veins curved. 

 Body slender ; abdomen long, attenuated ; labial palpi short, porrect, compressed, 

 very broad, laxly squamous, third joint minute ; maxillary palpi very slender ; 

 antennas long, slender, filiform ; legs long, slender, smooth ; hind tibiae very long, 

 spurs slender, equal. 



Tjjpe, L. geometralis. 



LEPYRODES GEOMETRALIS. 



Lepyrodes geometralis, Giienee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 278, pi. 8, fig. 6 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 

 B. M. xvii. p. 465 (1859); Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1884, p. 45. 



Brownish-ochreous : forewing with nine blackish-bordered hyaline- white spots 

 disposed between the costal and submedian vein, four of which are located above the 

 median and the others below it : hindwing with six transversely-disposed hyaline- 

 white spots. Both wings with Ijlackish intervening striga3. Cilias white, with black 

 linear inner spots. Abdomen, palpi, and legs banded with white. 



Expanse to to to inch. 



Genus PESSOCOSMA. 



Pcsaocosma, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. LonJ. 1884, p. 300. 



Closely allied to Sameodes. Venation similar. No costal fold on the forewing. 

 Antcnnte ciliated with tufts of ciliEe ; labial palpi more robust; hind tibiae slender 

 throughout, not thickened in the middle, hind pair of sjDurs present. 



Ti/pe, P. lolealis {Lepyrodes lolealis, Walker). 



