PHYClTIDyE. 365 



Forewings tinged with lioary, moi'e especially along the black lines, which are much 

 like those of i\^ acicnH^ ; a black patch by the interior Iwrder at a little before the 

 middle: hiudwings brown. This may be a variety of N. dcicalis, but the latter 

 species has no trace of the patch. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Hah. Ceylon. 



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

 Layard. 



Genus MAGIRIA. 

 Mayiria, Zeller, Stettiu Ent. Zeit. (1S67), p. 393, pi. 2, f. 2,c?. 



Male. Forewing elongated, rather narrow, cell fully two-thirds the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second close to the end, 

 third and fifth from the end, third bifid ; discocellular very slender ; radial and npper 

 median from lower end of the cell, middle median close to end, lower about one- 

 eighth ; snbmedian nearly straight : hindwing ample, long, broad, triangular ; cell 

 less than one-third the length; subcostals at one-fourth beyond end of the cell, 

 joined to the costal at their base ; discocellular outwardly oblique, radial and upper 

 median on a footstalk half beyond the cell ; middle median from the end, lower at 

 one-fourth before the end ; submedian straight, two internal veins slightly curved. 

 Body rather stout ; labial palpi ascending, and in the male recurved backward over 

 the head, coarsely squamous, second joint long, much dilated, spatula pointed at its 

 end, and concave on its inner side, apical joint minute, conical, in tiie female short, 

 reaching only to vertex, apex pointed ; maxillary palpi distinct, short, squamous in 

 the male, and the apex furnished with a long pencil of fine hairs, which are inclosed 

 within the cavity of the labial, slender in the female ; antennae short, stout in the 

 male, pubescent in front, base of shaft dilated, concave, and compactly tufted in 

 front; legs stout, coarsely squamous; tibise slightly pilose above; spurs long, 

 unequal. Female: wings as in male. Labial palpi smaller, shorter, obliquely 

 ascending, squamous, of equal width throughout, third joint about one-third 

 length of second ; maxillary palpi not tufted at the tip ; antennas not dilated at 

 the base. 



Type, M. imparella, Zeller (1. c. pi. 2. f. 2). 



Bab. E. India. 



MAGIKIA ROBUSTA (Plate 184, Fig. 4 ^, 4a larva). 



Female. Forewing pale ochreous-brown, very thickly speckled with cinereous- 

 white along the anterior border, and sparsely speckled with black scales along the 

 posterior border ; all the veins, excepting the submedian, lined with black, which 

 are crossed by a discal denticulated whitish-speckled line ; marginal points white : 



