320 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



long hairy scales. Thorax rather stout, tegulas fringed with very long silky hairs ; 

 abdomen keeled above, attenuated, apex pointed; labial palpi curved upward, reach- 

 ino- above the vertex, squamous at the sides, apex pointed, second j'oint with a dense 

 plumose tuft of long curly hairs curved upward in front; maxillary palpi short; 

 antennse setaceous, finely ciliated ; legs long, fore and middle femora finely fringed 

 beneath, tibiae clothed with short fine hairy scales ; hind tibiae with a dense tuft 

 above at the end and with a tufted appendage projecting from base of posterior 

 spurs, basal tarsi densely pilose, spurs slender, unequal. Palpi in female slender, 

 not tufted, hiudlegs not tufted. 



Ty])c, N. Chironalis {Botijs GhirunaUs, Walker). 



NOSOPHORA aUADRISIGNATA (Plate 183, Fig. 6). 



Male. Ochreous-brown : forewing with a large blackish-bordered hyaline- 

 white upper discal transverse spot, which is excavated on its outside near upper end, 

 a small almost white spot before end of the cell : hindwiug with a large blackish- 

 bordered hyaline-white broadly ovate discal spot. Body and legs paler ; a dense 

 tuft of cinereous-black hairs curved upward from fi-ont of palpi, and a tuft of long 

 black-tipt hairs extending from sides of thorax on the underside ; hiudlegs not 

 tufted. 



Female. Brownish-ochreous, the exterior borders clouded with brown : fore- 

 wing crossed by two very indistinct blackish outwardly-oblique medial lines ; discal 

 white spots, and hindwing as in male. 



Expanse^ ? 1 to liV inch. 



Genus GLYPHODES. 



Gbjphodcs, Gueuee, Delt. ct Pyral. p. 292 ( 18o4) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 496 (1859) ; 

 Lederer, PyraL Wiun. Eut. Monat. vii. p. 401 (1863) ; Meyrick, Trans. Eut. Soc. Loud. 1884, 

 p. 297. 



Male. Forewing elongate, triangular ; cell fully half the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-third before end of the cell, third bifid, fifth from the end; disco- 

 cellular slightly concave in the middle, bent near each end, radials from the angles ; 

 middle median close to end of cell, lower at one-fifth ; submedian bent upward near 

 the base, with a short lower recurved branch which rejoins it at two-fifths its length : 

 hindwing broad, triangular, anal angle convex ; cell broad, one-third the length ; 

 subcostals on a short footstalk beyond the cell ; discocellular outwardly concave, 

 radial from close to lower end ; two ujiper medians from end of cell, lower at one- 

 fourth ; a submedian and two internal veins. Body rather stout, abdomen extending 

 beyond hindwings ; tegulas edged with long broad spatular scales ; labial palpi 

 porrect, rather decumbent, second joint very broad, rounded, compressed, compactly 



