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MYELOIS(?) MAESYUSALIS. 

 Mijelois{?) Marsi/usnlis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het B. M. xxvii. p. 37 (1863). 



"Male. Brown, much paler beneath. Forewings rounded at the tips ; exterior 

 border hardly oblique ; middle line testaceous, slightly undulating ; submarginal 

 points testaceous. Palpi curved over the vertex, first joint moderately long, second 

 stout, third lanceolate, about half-length of second and much more slender ; antennte 

 stout, minutely pubescent; abdomen extending a little beyond the hindwings ; legs 

 stout, spurs very long; fore tibiis very short. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Hah. Ceylon. 



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

 Layard. 



Genus PEMPELIA. 



PempeUa, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 369 (1825-7); Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 179; id. 184G, 

 p. 766. 



Forewiug long, narrow, apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly oblique, hardly 

 convex ; cell two-thirds the length; first subcostal emitted at one- fourth before end 

 of the cell, second near the end, third bifid ; discocellular bent near the ends, radials 

 from the angles ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at one-sixth ; submedian 

 straight : hind wing long, broad, exterior margin very oblique, convex ; costal vein 

 curved upward ; cell one-third the length ; two subcostals from beyond end of the 

 cell, upper joined to costal from its base to one-third its length ; discocellular out- 

 wardly oblique, concave, no radial; two upper medians on a footstalk at half beyond 

 the cell, lower median from end of the cell ; submedian and two internal veins 

 straight and widely separated. Body moderately slender ; labial palpi long, 

 ascending, rising above the head, smoothly squamous, rather stout, third joint short, 

 obtusely pointed ; maxillary palpi long in male and with a lengthened slender pencil 

 of fine hairs ; inaxillary palpi in female short ; autennse in male rather thick, sub- 

 moniliform, minutely pubescent in front, somewhat twisted at the base and with a 

 short compact tuft in front ; legs laxly squamous, tarsi rather stout, not long, spurs 

 long, slender, unequal. 



Type, P. ornatella. 



PEMPELIA CAUTELLA. 



PempeUa caiddla. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 73 (1863). 



Forewing cinereous-brown, minutel}" brown-scaled, with faint traces of a trans- 

 verse pale band before the middle : hindwing pale cinereous, semihyaline ; with a 

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