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Genus ANCYLOLOMIA. 



Ancylolomia, Iliibucr, Vcrz. bek. Scbinctt. p. 363 (1825-7); Zeller, Monog. Chilo. ct Cramb. p. 9 



(1863). 

 Jariheza, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxvii. p. 183 (1863). 



Male. Forewing long, narrow ; costa straight, apex obtusely produced, exterior 

 margin concave below the apex and convex liindward ; cell very long, nearly three- 

 fourths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell, 

 second near the end, third trifid ; discocellular extremely slender, bent near the 

 ends, radials from the angles ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one- 

 fourth before the end ; submedian straight, with a short recurved lower branch : 

 hindwing long, broad, apex produced, exterior margin very oblique, convex in 

 middle ; subcostal free from the costal ; cell one-third the length at its upper end 

 and two-thirds at its lower end ; first branch of subcostal emitted before end of the 

 cell, curving upward and slightly touching the costal ; upper end of the cell bent 

 obhquely downward, the second subcostal from its end ; discocellular very oblique 

 and prolonged outward ; radial and upper median from lower end of the cell ; middle 

 median very close to the end, lower fully half before the end, base of median fringed 

 above ; submedian and two internal veins almost straight. Body slender, abdomen 

 rather long ; labial palpi very long, porrect, ahghtly curved downward, pilose above, 

 third joint attenuated, tip acute; maxillary palpi short, ascending, laxly pilose at 

 tip ; antennae long, broadly pectinated on the inner side only to near the tip, the 

 branches finely ciliated ; legs rather long, squamous, spurs short, equal. 



Type, A. palpella. 



ANCYLOLOMIA TAPROBANENSIS (Plate 184, Fig. 2, 2a $ ?). 



Ancylolomia tapi-obanensis, Zeller, Monogr, Chilo. et Cramb. p. 9 (1S63); id. Hoik. Soc. Eiit. Eoss. 

 1877, p. 25, pi. 1, fig. 8. 



Male. Forewing pale brownish-ochreous, the medial area suffused with golden- 

 yellow ; all the veins except the costal lined with black speckles, and between the 

 veins is a metallic silver-specked grey line; bordering the exterior margin is a 

 denticulated golden line, a dark silvery-grey line, and a row of marginal points, 

 followed by a straight silvery-grey interciliar line : hindwing cinereous-ochreous ; 

 ciHa pale yellow. Body, palpi, and forelegs bi'ownish-ochreous ; fore tarsi with 

 pale bands ; middle and hindlegs paler ochreous. Female. Paler : forewing with 

 the medial area also of a paler golden-yellow ; the veins black-speckled, and with 

 intervening silverj-grey lines ; marginal markings as in the male. 



Expanse, ^ 1, ? I5 inch. 



