PHYCITIDM. 359 



HOMffiOSOMA (?) GETUSALIS. 



Homccosoma (?) Geliisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 26 (186.3). 



" Male. Whitish-cinereous, brownish-cinereous beneath. Forewings rectangular 

 at the tips, exterior border rather oblique, interior angle much rounded ; a blackish 

 line at one-third of the breadth from the costa ; marginal points black : hindwings 

 brownish-cinereous. Palpi porrect, not longer than the breadth of the head, second 

 joint slightly tufted above, third acutely conical, about half-length of second ; an- 

 tenniB stout ; abdomen extending somewhat beyond the hindwings, apical tuft rather 

 long. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Eab. Ceylon. 



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

 Layard . 



Genus ACROBASIS. 



Acrobasis, Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 176 ; id. 1848, p. 606 ; Staiuton, Catal. Tin. p. 5 (1849) ; id. Manual 

 ii. p. 170 (1859). 



Wings small. Forewing rather long, narrow, broadest at the end ; cell two- 

 thirds the length ; first subcostal at one-fourth before end of cell, second and third 

 near the end, third bifid at half its length, fifth from end of cell ; discocellular concave, 

 radial from lower end ; middle and lower median close to end of cell ; submedian 

 straight : hindwing rather broad, exterior margin convex in middle ; cell nearly half 

 the length, narrow ; two subcostals from the end, upper joined to costal to about 

 half its length ; discocellular very concave, veiy oblique posteriorly, radial and upper 

 median on a footstalk at nearly half beyond the cell, middle median from end of cell, 

 lower at about one-fourth before the end ; a submedian and two internal veins. 

 Body slender ; labial palpi curved upward, rather slender, finely squamous, third 

 joint pointed ; maxillary palpi short, slender, pointed ; autennte slender, finely 

 pubescent in front ; legs stout, tarsi short, spurs rather short, unequal. 



Type, A. consociella. 



ACROBASIS LIGERALIS. 

 Mi/elois LifjemJis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. j\I. xxvii. p. 37 (1863). 

 Forewing lilacine-grey ; slightly clouded with brown and thinly speckled with 

 black scales ; the black scales being clustered at the base ; crossed by an undulated 

 medial and a submargiual slender black line, followed by a straight marginal line : 

 hindwing whitish, semihyaline, with a slender brown marginal line. Body, palpi, 

 and legs lilacine-grey ; base of palpi, tibiis, and tarsi with brown bands. 

 Expanse -fii inch. 



