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border thickly speckled witli lioary white scales; crossed by a medial and a sub-, 

 marginal black -speckled bordered ferruginous band, the inner band acutely bent out- 

 ward in middle of the cell, the outer baud undulated and bent acutely inward at the 

 lower median vein ; a black-specklod lunular spot at end of the cell, and a marginal 

 lunular line : hindwiug and abdomen pale cinereous-brown ; cilia whitish. Thorax 

 violaceous-brown, hoary speckled ; head, palpi, and legs hoary white, with brown 

 bands. 



Expanse t\j inch. 



" Closely allied to the European S. iialumheUa, Fabr. Darker coloured ; the 

 hindwing being almost as dark tinted as the forewing. On the forewiug the medial 

 band is distinctly more acutely angulated within the cell." (Bagoiiot, MS.) 



SALEBRIA MINTJTELLA. 



Sidehria minutcUa, Ragouot, Moiiogr. PhycidiE (MS.). 



" Forewing grey, tinged with pale brown in the basal area and along the dorsal 

 fold, the median space with numerous scattered black scales, hence darker than the 

 rest of the wing ; the lines which limit it hardly darker, indistinct ; a rather long 

 patch of black scales on the inner margin at some distance before the first line, and 

 produced towards it along the dorsal vein ; the first line begins a little before the 

 middle of the costa, is slightly oblique and indented on the dorsal fold ; the second 

 line is also slightly oblique, indented on the discal and dorsal folds and produced on 

 the median nervures ; it is followed at some distance by an indistinct dark line ; 

 cilia grey, with two fuscous lines and preceded by a series of small black spots : 

 hindwings semi-transparent, pale fuscous, darker on the nervures and along the hind 

 margin ; cilia white, with a fuscous line at the base. Head, thorax, and palpi 

 greyish, with brownish scales ; antennae greyish-brown ; abdomen greyish-brown, 

 anal segment yellowish, beneath yellowish, the anal extremity brownish ; legs and 

 body beneath grej'ish. 



" Expanse 15 m." 



Hah. Ceylon. 



" Somewhat resembles *S^. mimdnJis, Walker, but is smaller, the latter having a 

 large tuft of scales in the curve of the antennjB, and the joints are not produced." 

 {Bagonot, MS.) 



Genus CANTHELIA. 

 Canthelia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1726 (1866). 

 Forewing narrow ; cell tliree-fifths the length ; first subcostal at about one- 

 fourth before end of the cell, second free, third bifid, fifth from end of cell ; disco- 

 cellular slightly concave, radial from lower end ; middle median close to end of the 

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