356 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



medial, and a postmedial irregular denticulated wliite line ; the outer line curved 

 outward beyond the cell ; a marginal row of white-bordered black dots : hindwing 

 cinereous-white, the outer border with a slender pale brownish-ochreous marginal 

 line. Cilia white, with pale brown inner line. Body pale brownish-ochreous ; palpi 

 and legs whitish; tip of palpi brownish. 

 Expanse -rs inch. 



Genus NOMOPHILA. 



iV'omo/)/;//!^, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 368(1825-7); Stepbens, Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 312 ; 



Ledeier, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 379; Meyiick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 306. 

 Stenopteryx, GiK-nee, in Dnpoucbel's Catal. Lep. Eur. p. 209 (1844) ; Delt. et Pjral. p. 413 ; Walker, 



Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 811. 



Forewing long, very narrow, exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell very long, 

 nearly two-thirds the length ; first subcostal about one-sixth before end of the cell, 

 second and third close to the end, third bifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular con- 

 cave in the middle, bent near the ends, radials from the angles ; middle median from 

 angle close to end of cell, lower at one-fifth ; submedian with a slender recurved, 

 lower branch : hindwing long, rather broad, triangular, apex produced, exterior 

 margin convex ; cell about half the length ; subcostals from beyond end of the cell, 

 upper partly joined to the costal ; discocellular outwardly oblique, radial from lower 

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

 internal veins. Body slender ; labial palpi porrect, rostriform, pointed at the tip, 

 laxly squamous, third joint concealed; maxillary palpi very short, filiform; legs 

 long, slender, smooth ; spurs slender, unequal, hind spurs rather short. 



NOMOPHILA NOCTUELLA. 



Tinea voctuella, Scbiff. Wien. Veiz. p. 136 (1776). 



Nomophila noctuella, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 379 ; Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond, 



1884, p. 306. 

 Pijralls hi/hridalis, Hiibner, Pyral. 29, 20, pi. 17, fig. 114 (1797). 

 Nomophila hijhridalis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scliractt. p. 368 ; Stepbens, Illiist. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. 



p. 312. 

 Stenopteryx hyhridalis, Guenee, in Duponcbel's Catal. Lep. Eur. p. 209 ; Delt. et Pyral. p. 414 ; 



Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 812. 



Cinereous-brown : forewino- with some indistinct blackish subbasal streaks, a 

 transverse antemedial line, a large constricted blackish-bordered darker-brown mark 

 extending across middle of the cell to the submedian, a similar smaller mark at end 

 of the cell, followed by an irregular discal denticulated line and marginal points ; 

 some costal black points before the apex ; these markings are all less defined in the 

 male : hindwing paler cinereous-brown. Cilia cinereous-white. Thorax blackish- 



