370 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



slender brown marginal line. Body, palpi, and legs cinereous-brown; tarsi darker- 

 brown, with pale bands. 

 Expanse 1% inch. 



Genus CADRA. 

 Cadra, Walker, Catal Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxx. p. 961 (1864). 

 •' Male and female. Wings long, narrow: fore wings rounded at the tips ; exterior 

 margin nearly straight, hardly oblique. 'Body slender; palpi stout, nearly erect, 

 rising a little higher than the vertex; second joint squamous, third lanceolate, about 

 half-length of the second ; maxillary palpi distinct ; antennae smooth, rather stout ; 

 abdomen extending beyond the hiadwings ; legs smooth, rather slender, hind tibiae 

 with long spurs." 



CADEA DEFECTELLA. 



Cadra defectella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxx. p. 962 (1864). 

 " Male and female. Cinereous : forewings very minutely speckled ; with two 

 indistinct and diffuse pale fawn-coloured bands. 

 " Expanse ro inch." 



Genus DAPHA. 

 Dapha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 124 (1863). 

 " Female. Wings rather broad, not long : forewing rectangular at the tip, costa 

 straight, exterior margin slightly convex, hardly oblique. Body stout ; palpi porrect, 

 compressed, second joint extending half its length beyond the head, broadly and 

 laxly fringed above, third joint slender, truncate at the tip, half-length of the second ; 

 antennas rather stout, short, simple ; legs smooth, rather stout, middle tibige slightly 

 dilated and fringed, hind spurs short." 



DAPHA VALEUSALIS. 



Dapha Valnisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. xxvii. p. 125 (1863). 



Female. Violaceous-cinereous : forewing crossed by a siibbasal, medial, and 

 postmedial duplex brown lines, the two former outwardly curved from the costa and 

 slightly bent inward near the posterior margin, the outer lines denticulated ; the 

 middle line internally and the postmedial line externally being slightly black-speckled ; 

 the basal, medial, and exterior area suffused with olive-green. Thorax and palpi 

 with brown bands. 



Expanse xlr inch. 



Genus CABRAGUS. 

 Male. Forewing narrow ; apex pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell 



