358 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



slightly reddisli-oclireous : hiudwing ochreous-wliite. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs 

 reddish-ochreous. 

 Expanse f inch. 



ANERASTIA INFICITA. 



Acrohasis inficita, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 30 (1863). 



" Pale dull straw-colour: forewings mostly clouded with brownish-cinereous; 

 subniarginal line pale, denticulated : hindwings paler, slightly hyaline. 

 " Expanse f inch." 



Genus HOMCEOSOMA. 



Ilommsoma, Curtis, Ent. Mag. i. p. 190 (1833) ; Stephens, Illiist. Haust. iv. p. 311 (183-1); Zeller, 

 Isis, 1848, p. 599 ; Staintoii, Catal. Tin. p. 4 (1849) ; id. Manual, ii. p. 169 (1859). 



Wings small. Forewing long, very narrow ; cell two-thirds the length ; first 

 subcostal about one-fourth before end of cell, second and third from angle near the 

 end, third bifid at its tip, fifth from the end of cell ; discocelliilar concave, radial 

 and upper median on a footstalk at more than half beyond the cell, middle and lower 

 median at equal distances near end of cell ; submedian straight : hindwing narrow, 

 apex convex, exterior margin very oblique, convex ; cell one-third the length ; two 

 subcostals from beyond end of the cell, upper coalescent with costal from near the 

 base to near its tip ; discocellular slightly concave, no radial ; three medians, the 

 middle branch very close to end of cell, lower at nearly one-third before the end, 

 submedian and two internal veins widely separated. Body slender; antennge of 

 male thick, flattened, finely pubescent in front ; labial palpi porrect, slender, project- 

 ing half beyond the head, clothed with fine hairy scales ; maxillary palpi short ; legs 

 rather stout, squamous, spurs slender, unequal. 



Type, H. sinuella. 



HOMCEOSOMA (?) IINCUSALIS. 



Homaosoma (.') Lincusalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 26 (1863). 



" Male. Very pale fawn-colour, whitish-cinereous beneath. Forewings rect- 

 angular at the tips ; exterior border hardly oblique ; a slight black line in the disc 

 near the base, and another extending from the reniform mark towards the exterior 

 border ; reniform mark whitish, accompanied by a black point ; a lanceolate black 

 streak in the disc behind it ; marginal points black : hindwings whitish-cinereous. 

 Palpi porrect, lanceolate, as long as the breadth of the head, third joint conical. 



" Expanse I'i lines." 



JInh. Ceylon. 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. E. L. 

 Layard. 



