36t! THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



darker reddish-brown outer border of the wing : hindwing pale cuprescent cinereous- 

 brown, cilia edged with white. Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs cupreous-red : 

 thorax and tcgulas pale streaked; abdomen and legs pale cuprescent-cinereous, tarsi 

 with brown bands. 



Expanse VV inch. 



Genus MYELOIS. 

 Jlli/ehi's, Hubuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 371 (l«25-7); Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 17G ; Id. 1848, p. 585 ; 



Stainton, Catal. Tin. p. 5 (1849) ; id. Manual, ii. p. 172 (1859). 

 Lhpe, Troitschke, Ear. 8ch. ix. 1, p. 204 (1832). 

 Myehphila, Treitschke, id. Sappl. x. p. 174 (1835) ; Guenee, Micro, p. 85 (1S45). 



Forewing long, narrow ; cell more than two-thirds the length ; first subcostal 

 at one-seventh before end of cell, second and third from angle close to end, third 

 bifid, fifth from end ; discocellular outwardly oblique and slightly concave ; no upper 

 radial, lower radial and upper median on a footstalk half beyond the cell ; middle 

 median from angle close to end, lower at about one-sixth ; submedian straight : 

 hindwing ample, triangular, exterior margin very obliquely convex ; cell half the 

 length ; two subcostals from a short distance beyond end of cell, upper partly joined 

 to costal ; discocellular deeply concave, radial and upper median on a footstalk two- 

 thirds beyond the cell, middle median from end of cell, lower at one-fourth; a sub- 

 median and two internal veins. Body moderately slender ; antenna slender, simple, 

 minutely pubescent in front ; labial palpi ascending, curved, rising above the vertex, 

 compactly squamous, apex pointed, joints indistinct ; maxillary palpi short, slender ; 

 legs stout, squamous, spurs unequal. 



Tijpe, M. cribrum. 



MYELOIS (1) BASIFUSCALIS. 



Mycloisi?) basifiiscaJis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. .xxvii. p. 38 (18G3). 



" Female. Cinereous. Wings brownish for nearly one-third the length from 

 the base, this hue bounded by a pale undulating partly black-bordered line ; exterior 

 line pale, denticulated, partly black-bordered ; reniform mark of tlie forewings small, 

 blackish ; two blackish spots on the inner side of the exterior line in the forewings ; 

 marginal points black. Palpi porrect, not so long as the breadth of the head, third 

 joint lanceolate, shorter and more slender than the second ; antenna? much more 

 than half-length of the body ; abdomen elongate, conical, extending a little beyond 

 the hind wings. 



" E.xpanse 7 to 8 Hues." 



Hab. Ceylon. 



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

 Layard. 



