314 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



eud ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at nearly one-third ; a submedian 

 and two internal veins. Body slender, abdomen attenuated ; forehead ridged at the 

 sides ; labial palpi porrect, very broad, compressed, rounded and fringed in front, 

 third joint rather long, acicular, decumbent ; maxillary palpi distinct, ascending, apex 

 triangular ; antennae slender, veiy minutely serrated ; legs long, smooth, slender, 

 spurs unequal. 



PAGYDA SALVALIS (Plate 182, Fig. 6). 

 Paijijda salmlis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 487 (1859). 



Cinereous-yellow, glossy : forewing crossed by two reddish-ochreous outwardly- 

 oblique basal, an antemcdial and a medial band, an inwardly-oblique short upper 

 postmedial band, and a recurved submarginal band ; the third, fourth, and fifth 

 bands each ending in a black costal spot : hindwing with a similar coloured medial 

 and submarginal band. Thorax and abdomen with reddish-ochreous bands ; frontal 

 tuft white, ridged at the sides ; palpi reddish-ochreous with two cinereous-brown 

 outwardly-curved bands, basal joint white ; forelegs reddish-ochreous, with white 

 bands ; middle and hind legs whitish, with slight blackish tarsal bands. Cilia with 

 an oohreous inner line. 

 Expanse tV inch. 



Genus CANGETTA. 



Wings small. Forewing broad, apex acute, exterior margin slightly oblique and 

 convex ; cell half the length ; first subcostal not visible, second quadrifid, the third 

 and fourth thrown off near the apex, the fifth from below second at half-way between 

 its base and the third ; discocellular slender, slightly concave, upper i^adial from close 

 to upper end, lower radial and two upper medians on a footstalk beyond end of the 

 cell (the lower radial being emitted from upper median at more than half its length) j 

 lower median at one-fifth before end of the cell; submedian recurved, with a slender 

 lower recurved branch : hindwing rather long, exterior mai'gin and anal angle very 

 convex ; cell about one-third the length ; two subcostals from end of cell, upper 

 joined to costal to half its length ; discocellular slender, slightly concave ; two upper 

 medians from end of the cell, the radial being emitted from the upper median at 

 more than half its length ; lower median close to end of cell ; submedian and internal 

 vein straight. Body slender, tuft pointed ; labial palpi curved, rather narrow, second 

 joint laxly squamous, third joint about half length of second, slender, pointed ; 

 maxillary palpi squamous, reaching almost to end of labial ; antennaj submoniliform, 

 slightly serrate at the tip : legs slender, smooth, spurs long, unequal. 



CANGETTA RECTILINEA (Plate 182, Fig. 8). 

 Cinereous-white : forewing with the base of costa minutely brown scaled ; 



