354 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



squamous, second joiut sliglitly ascending, third joint porrect, subclavate, almost as 

 long as the second, with which it forms a slight angle; maxillary palpi distinct, laxly 

 squamous, ascending; antennae slender, simple; legs rather short, smooth, spurs 

 long, slender. 



NOORDA BLITEALIS (Plate 178, Fig. 11). 



Koorda hlitealis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Met. B. M. xix. p. 979 (1859). 



Scapula svbjectalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1472 (1865). 



Forewing dark olive-brown, black- speckled ; the speckles partly confluent and 

 forming short strig^ ; a black-speckled transverse curved medial line, an oblique 

 spot at end of the cell, an oblique angulated submarginal line, and a straight marginal 

 line; the lines bordered with chalybeous scales in some lights ; a whitish lower basal 

 spot, and tlie discal area also slightly whitish : hindwing purplish-white, hyaline, 

 with a cupreous-brown marginal baud ; cilia white, with an inner brown line. Body 

 brown ; abdomen with chalybeous iridescent black-bordered bands ; fore tibiae and 

 tarsi with brown bands. 



Expanse to to ttt inch. 



Genus SCOPARIA. 

 Scopmia, Hawortli, Lep. Brit. p. 498 (1812); Guenee, Delt. et Pyr.al. p. 416; Walker, Catal. Lep. 



Het. B. M. six. p. 814 ; Meyrick, Traus. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1884, p. 346. 

 Gesneria, Iliibner, Verz. bek. Schniett, p. 368 (182.3-7). 



Eudorca, Cuvt\s,Bv\t. Ent. iv. fol. 170(1828) ; Duponchel, Lep. Fr. viii. 2, p. 12(1831); Stephens, Brit. 

 Ent. Haust. iv. p. 214 ; Duponchel, Eur. Lep. p. 319; Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B. M. pt. xii. 

 p. 21 (1852). 

 Scopc^a, Ilaworth, Lep. Brit. p. 390 (1829). 



Forewing narrow, rather long ; cell two-thirds the length ; first subcostal at 

 one-fourth before end of the cell, second and third near the end, third bifid ; disco- 

 cellular slender, erect, bent near the ends, radials from the angles ; middle median 

 from near end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian with a short recurved 

 lower branch : hindwing rather long, broad, exterior margin convex ; cell fully half 

 the length ; subcostals from beyond end of the cell, upper slightly touching the 

 costal ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, deeply concave, radial curved upward from 

 lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower about one-third ; a submedian 

 and two internal veins. Body slender; labial palpi porrect, rostriform, projecting 

 two-thirds beyond the head, laxly squamous ; maxillary palpi long, standing out 

 above labial, dilated with lax scales at the tip; autennte filiform; legs rather thick 

 and short, tibife clothed with fine hairy scales, spurs unequal. 



Type, S. Pyralella. 



SCOPARIA CONGESTAIIS. 

 Scopnria congestalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. liet. B. M. xix. p. 826 (1859). 



Cmereous. Forewing densely speckled with browu scales; crossed by an 



