318 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



extcuded end of cell, lower about one-fourth ; a submedian and two internal veins. 

 Body moderately stout, abdomen extending beyond hindwings, with lateral apical 

 tufts in male : labial palpi porrect, moderately broad, squamous, extending half 

 beyond the head, third joint short; maxillary palpi very distinct, rather long; 

 antennae stout, broadly ciliated in male ; legs rather stout, tibite squamous, spurs 

 unequal. 



OMPHISA ILLISALIS (Plate 183, Fig. 4). 



Bobjs illisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 653 (1859); Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. 

 Monat. vii. p. 371, pi. 9, fig. 12. 



Male. Dingy ochreous-white : forewiug with the basal area brownish-ochreous ; 

 crossed by a brown antemedial curved line, and an irregular discal brown-bordered 

 augulated macular band, the upper portions of which are semihyaline ; a quadrate 

 brown-bordered hyaline spot in middle of the cell, another at its end, and three 

 lower discal confluent spots : hind wing mostly semihyaline ; with a short basal 

 brownish-ochreous band ; a quadrate l)rown-bordered ochreous patch at end of the 

 cell, from which a brown-speckled line extends to middle of abdominal margin ; 

 beyond is a brown-bordered ill-defined macular band, which is anteriorly and 

 posteriorly confluent with a brownish-ochreous marginal Hue. Cilia alternated with 

 brownish-ochreous. Body brownish-ochreous ; abdomen brown speckled, with 

 whitish basal dorsal spots ; anal tufts brown ; legs speckled with brown. 



Expanse, $ lyo, ? IfV inch. 



Genus ANALTES. 



Analtes, LeJerer, Pyral. Wion. Eut. Jloaat. vii. p. 407 (1863). 



Male : forewiug elongate, triangular ; cell more than half the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell, second close to end, trifid, 

 fifth from end ; discocellular concave, radials from close to the end ; middle 

 median close to end, lower at nearly one-fifth ; submedian curved upward, with a 

 slender recurved lower branch : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin convex ; 

 cell one-third the length ; subcostals from end ; discocellular concave, i\adial from 

 lower end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; a submedian 

 and two internal veins. Thorax stout ; abdomen long, attenuated at the tip ; 

 labial palpi erect, slender, squamous, second joint reaching to the vertex, third joint 

 short ; antennjB thickexied at the base of shaft, ciliated, basal joint with a short tuft 

 in front ; legs rather stout, long, fore and middle tibioj pilose above, spurs long, 

 unequal. 



Type, A. semitritalis. 



