334 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



l»lack; spots indistiuct in the funiale ; palpi oclireous at the tip, second joint with 

 a broad blauk Ijand, base whitish ; legs paler above ; forelegs in male witli blackish 

 bands; hind tarsi in male with a tuft of irridescent blackish hairs. Cilia edged 

 with white. 



Expanse, ^ 1, ? It'u inch. 



Genus PITACANDA. 

 Male. Wings smooth : forewing long ; costa arched toward end, exterior 

 margin very oblique ; cell extending more than half the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-sixth before end of the cell, second and third close to end, third 

 Ihfid, fifth from end and extending upward close to and parallel with third to one- 

 third its length ; discocellular slender, concave, radials from the ends ; middle 

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

 slender lower branch extending to near posterior-angle : hindwing short, triangular, 

 apex convex ; cell one-third the length ; two subcostals from the end, upper partly 

 joined to costal ; discocellular almost bent in the middle, radial from lower end ; 

 two upper medians from end of cell, lower close to end ; a straight submedian and 

 internal vein. Body rather stout, abdomen extending nearly half beyond hindwings; 

 thorax pilose ; palpi short, jaorrect, convergent at the tip, apex slightly decumbent, 

 smoothly squamous ; antenna3 rather thick, stoutly pectinated on the outer side and 

 serrated on the inner side to near the tip, the branches minutely ciliated; legs 

 rather stout, fore and middle tibite pilose; fore tarsi also slightly pilose; hind tibia) 

 iu'oad, flattened, excavated exteriorly in the middle, slightly pilose, spurs short, 

 basal joint of tarsi also slightly pilose. 



PITACANDA SPILOSOMOIDES (Plate 183, Fig. 10). 

 Male. Wings ochreous-white : forewing with a black basal costal spot, four 

 short longitudinal subbasal streaks, a transverse cvirved antemedial band, and a 

 recurved postmedial band composed of short streaks between the veins, followed by 

 a small spot below the lower subcostal, and two discal spots situated above and 

 below the upper median ; the outer border streaked with yellow between the veins : 

 hindwing with the outer border yellow, a large black spot on middle of abdominal 

 margin. Thorax, head, palpi, and base of abdomen ochreous-white ; teguto and 

 abdomen ochreous ; sides of thorax with black spots ; abdomen with black dorsal 

 bands ; legs whitish ; fore femora and tibiaj, and middle femora banded with black. 

 Expanse If inch. 



Genus BOTYODES. 

 Boti/odes, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr.al. p. 320 (1854); Walker, Ciital. Lop. Hft. B. M. xviii. p. 550; 

 Ledercr, Pyral. Wieu. Eiit. Monat. vii. p. 394. 



AYings large: forewing elongate, triangular; cell fully half the length; first 



