324 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



very slioi't j maxillaiy palpi erect, truncate at the tip, distinct ; antenna simple ; 

 legs long, slender, smooth, spurs long, unequal. 

 Type, E. hyalinata. 



EUDIOPTIS INDICA. 



IX. 



Eudioptis indica, Saunders, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1851, p. 1G3, pi. 12, fig. 5, 6, 7; Zoologist, j<^ 



p. 3070. 

 Phakellura indica. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 514; Snellen, Tijd. voor. Ent. 1883, 



p. 141. 

 Phacelhira indica, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 297. 



Phakellura Gazorialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 297; Semper, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesc. 1867, p. 702. 

 Phacellura Gazorialis, Lederer, Pyral. VVien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 400. 



Wings hyaline-white, opalescent ; forewing with a broad cupreous-brown 

 costal band and an exterior marginal band : hiudwiug with a similar exterior mar- 

 ginal baud. Cilia cinereous-brown. Thorax, head, palpi above, and penultimate 

 segment of abdomen above, cupreous-brown ; base of palpi, thorax, base of abdomen 

 above and beneath, and legs white ; anal tuft ochreous, tipt with brown. 



Expanse tti to 1 inch. 



Genus MARGARONIA. 



Margaronia,llu\}a(.-v, Yerz. bek. Sclimett. p. 358(1825-7); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. 



p. 518. 

 Margarodcs, Giu'iiee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 301 (1854) ; Lederer, Pyral. Wieu. Ent. Mouat. vii. p. 398 ; 

 Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 290. 



Male. Wings smooth, silky, diaphanous, opalescent: forewing moderately 

 long, triangular, costa much arched towards the end, apes acute, exterior margin 

 oblique ; cell narrow, more than half the length ; first subcostal fully half before 

 end of the cell, second and third close to end, hardly separable at their base, third 

 bifid, fifth from end, curved upward from the base and almost touching third ; 

 discocellular outwardly-oblique, slightly concave, radials from close to the ends; 

 middle median close to end of cell, lower at nearly one-third ; submedian bent 

 upward near the base, and with a recurved lower slender branch rejoining it beyond 

 one-third its length : hindwing short, broad, triangular, exterior margin very 

 slightly convex ; cell two-fifths the length ; subcostals from slightly beyond the 

 end, upper partly joined to costal; discocellular outwardly oblique, almost bent in 

 middle, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end, lower at one-fifth ; 

 a nearly straight submedian and two internal veins. Body smooth, silky, moderately 

 stout; abdomen keeled above, anal tuft pointed, compact; labial palpi porrect, 

 projected more than half beyond the head, broad, smoothly clothed, pointed in 

 front, third joint concealed ; maxillary palpi broad at the apex ; antennae slender. 



