382 THE LEPinOPTERA OF CEYLON: 



ANCYLOLOMIA AEGENTATA (Plate 184, Fig. 3, cj). 



Male. ForewiTig silvery cinereous-white ; the veins within the discal area 

 golden-yellow and lined with black dots; the exterior border with a transverse 

 denticulated golden-yellow line, a broader silvery-grey line, a row of blackish 

 spots, and a recurved marginal line : hindwing darker cinereous- white ; cilia pure 

 white. Thorax, head, palpi and forelegs pale-ochreous ; abdomen silvery cinereous- 

 white. 



Expanse tV to nr inch. 



ANCYLOLOMIA BASISTRIGA (Plate 184, Fig. 1, $ ). 



]\Iale and female. Forewing glossy pale purplish cuprescent-brown ; the costal 

 border and a more prominent abbreviated streak from base below the cell senescent- 

 white; the veins externally hned with silvery-grey, and their interspaces with 

 blackish scales; the black scales being more numerous below the basal streak; 

 marginal row of spots black : hindwing purplish-cinereous ; cilia white. Thorax, 

 head, palpi, antennae, and forelegs brown, speckled with senescent scales; sides of 

 thorax and tegulce asnescent-yellow ; abdomen pale purplish-cinereous ; tarsi with 

 pale bauds. 



Expanse, $ l{ji, 9 Ifij inch. 



" Neuera Eliza, May 21st, 1885." (Machwood.) 



Genus CULLADIA. 



Araxes* Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilct. B. M. xxvii. p. 192 (186.3). 



Wings small : forewing narrow, apex acute, costa straight, exterior margin 

 slightly oblique ; cell fully two-thirds the length ; first subcostal at one-fourth before 

 end of the cell, second free, third from angle before the end, bifid, fifth from the end; 

 discocellular concave, slender ; radial and upper median on a footstalk half beyond 

 the cell, middle median from the end, lower at one-fifth; submedian straight: hind- 

 wing rather narrow, apex convex ; cell open ; two subcostals at one-third the length 

 of the wing, upper joined to costal for half its length ; radial and upper median on 

 a footstalk at half-length beyond base of middle median, lower median at half the 

 length of cell; a submedian and two internal veins. Body slender; labial palpi 

 porrect, long, second joint extending more than half beyond the head, slightly pilose 

 at the tip above, third joint lanceolate, acute at the tip ; maxillary palpi extending 

 to end of second joint of labial, dilated with fine scales at the tip; antennse stout; 

 legs short, smooth, spurs equal. 



Type, C. adraigratella. 



* Used by ytfphens iu 1834 for a genus of Lepidoptera. 



