384 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



from tlie end, upper joined to costal for a short distance beyond its base ; discocel- 

 lular bent obliquely inward to near half its length, the lower half longest and bent 

 obliquely outward, radial from extreme lower end ; middle median close to end of 

 cell, lower at nearly one-third ; submedian and two internal veins slightly recurved ; 

 base of median above, fringed. Body slender, abdomen extending about half beyond 

 hindwiugs, apex pointed ; labial palpi long, porrect, clothed with lax hairy scales ; 

 maxillary palpi oblique, large, densely clothed at the tip with lax hairy scales ; 

 antennaj stout, coarsely serrated, minutely pubescent in front ; legs squamous, spurs 

 rather stout, nearly equal. Female. Wings longer : f orewing prolonged and acute 

 at the apex ; antenna slender. 

 Type, C. phragmatellus. 



CHILO DODATELLUS. 



Chilo dodatelliis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxx. p. 967 (1864), 5 . 

 Chilo aditcllus, Walker, id. p. 967, 9 . 



Forewing bright ochreous-yellow, speckled with ochreous-red scales, which are 

 darker and confluent within the cell, and there form a longitudinal fascia ; a darker 

 spot at the upper and lower end of the fascia ; an inwardly-oblique discal ochreous- 

 red denticulated line, followed by a marginal row of minute red points : hiudwing 

 whitish.. Thorax, head, palpi, fore and middle femora bright ochreous-yellow; 

 abdomen and hindlegs ochreous-white ; fore tibias above, middle tibias and tarsi, and 

 hind tarsi ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, $ -jV, ? l-i',7 to 1 n; inch. 



CHILO DESISTALIS (Plate 184, Fig. 10). 

 Cramhvs demstalls. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 165 (1863). 

 Forewing very pale brownish-ochreous ; very sparsely speckled with longitudi- 

 nally disposed brown scales, of which those within and beyond the cell are more 

 numerous and there form a slight longitudinal abbreviated fascia j marginal points 

 black, minute : hiudwing pale brownish-cinereous. Thorax, head, and palpi very 

 pale brownish-ochreous ; abdomen brownish-cinereous ; legs pale brown. 

 Expanse ItV to Ito inch. 

 " Captured at Holnicot, March." (Machvood.) 



Genus SCHCENOBIUS. 



Sclunwbins, Duponchel, Catal. Lep. Eur. p. 312 (1844); GueQee, Micro, p. 95 (1845); Zeller, 



Mouog. Cliilo. et Cramb. p. 3 (1863). 

 Chilo (part), Zinkeu-Sommer, Gueriu'^^ Mag. Eut. ii. p. 33 (1817) ; Treitscbke ; Stephens. 

 Fal^utria (part), Hawortb, Lep. P.rit. p. 482. 

 Eriopructus, Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 169 



Male. Differs from CMlo : forewing with the apex obtuse ; the first subcostal 



