380 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



first subcostal emitted about one-fifth before eud of cell, second near the end, third 

 trifid ; discocellular extremely slender, radials from near the upper end and at lower 

 end ; middle median at one-seventh, lower at two-sevenths, befoi'e end of cell ; 

 submedian straight : hiudwing long, broad, triangular, apex convex, cell open ; 

 subcostals at one-third from base of the wing, second joined to costal to half its 

 leno-th ; base of median above, fringed ; lower median at nearly half from base of 

 wino-, middle median at three-fourths, upper median and radial on a footstalk half- 

 way beyond the middle median ; a straight submedian and two slightly curved 

 internal veins. Body slender; labial palpi long, porrect, pointed ; maxillary palpi 

 short, triangular, apex with a dilated tuft ; antennas submoniliform, pubescent in 

 front ; legs smooth, spurs stout, nearly equal. 

 Type, C. pascuellus. 



CRAMBUS HAPALISCUS (Plate 184, Fig. 6). 

 Crambus hapaliscns, Zcller, Lep. Micro. Caffr. Kongl. Vet. AkaJ. Ilandl. 1852, p. 71; Zeller, Monog. 



Chilo. et Cramh. p. 17 (1863). 

 Crcmbiis concinncUus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxvii. p. 165 (18G3); Meyrick, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. New S. Wales, iii. p. 182 (1878). 



Forewing pale violet-brown, palest along the posterior border ; with a broad 

 lonoitudinal silvery-white band extending below the costa from the base to apex, 

 and which is crossed before the apex by four outwardly-oblique slender cinereous- 

 violet convergent lines, one of which angularly descends to the posterior margin ; 

 the outer discal and marginal area with slight black short longitudinal streaks ; 

 cilia with a whitish inner line, which is most prominent at the apical end : hindwing 

 semihyaline white, with a brownish marginal line. Body brownish-white ; thorax 

 and labial palpi brown at the sides ; forelegs entirely brown ; bands on tarsi also 

 brown ; antenuee brown. 



Expanse tV inch. 



CRAMBUS ERMINEUS (Plate 184, Fig. 7). 



Silky-white : forewing crossed by a slender brown outwardly-curved postmedial 

 line, which terminates at its posterior end in a large brown spot, followed by a sub- 

 marginal undulated line, between which and the exterior margin are some short 

 longitudinal golden-yellow streaks, one on each vein ; between the streaks on 

 the upper and middle medians is a black spot ; a short black slender streak at 

 the apical end of the exterior margiu ; costal edge at the base also brown ; cilia 

 edged with brown: hindwing pure white. Antennte, palpi at the side, and forelegs 

 brown. 



Expanse tV inch. 



