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the male, and thickest and darkest on the exterior border : forewing crossed by a 

 blackish, denticulated, antemedial, and a postmedial line, and an ill-defined brown 

 medial fascia ; a snbmarginal row of pale centred black points, the lowest one being 

 most prominent : hindwing with a similar medial fascia, discal denticulated line, and 

 submarginal row of pale testaceous points, the anal and apical angle also with 

 some testaceous streaks. 



Expanse 1-nr to Ittt inch. 



Genus SCARDAMIA. 



Scanlamia, Gut'nee, Phal. i. p. 89 (1857). 



Laginia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 245 (1860). 



Forewing rather narrow, elongated ; apex hardly acute, exterior margin slightly 

 oblique ; cell rather more than half the length ; costal vein forked near the end ; 

 first subcostal at two-fifths before end of the cell, second close to first, trifid, fifth 

 from the end; discocellular outwardly-oblique, slender, radial from the middle; the 

 middle median close to end of cell, lower about one-third : hindwing short, exterior 

 margin convex ; cell fully half the length ; costal and subcostal curved upward at the 

 base ; first subcostal at one-fourth ; discocellular outwardly oblique ; the middle 

 median close to end of cell, lower at nearly half. Body moderately stout ; frontal tuft 

 smooth, broad ; antennae in male broadly bipectinated to near the tip, the branches 

 ciliated ; palpi obliquely ascending, rising a little above the vertex, smoothly squa- 

 mous, second joint long, third very minute ; legs long, smooth, slender ; spurs rather 

 long slender. 



SCARDAMIA METALLARIA (Plate 185, Fig. 2,^). 



Scardamia metallaria, Gucnee, Phal. i. p. 89 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 112. 



Laginia bractearia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 245 (1860). 



Scardamia taprobanes, Felder and Rogenh. Nov. Rcise, Lep. v. pi. 122, f. 2 (1875). 



Reddish-ochreous ; the basal two-thirds with short transverse darker strigaj. 

 Both wings with a transverse narrow medial, discal, and a marginal metallic silvery- 

 black Une, the medial fine on the forewing being continued along the costa to the 

 base ; the outer border traversed by a greyish fascia, marked with short, slender, 

 black strigfe ; a small brown spot at end of each cell ; costal border of forewing 

 greyish-ochreous. Thorax with a silvery collar ; abdomen with whitish bands ; 

 antenuEe brown, shaft white edged ; body, palpi, and legs reddish-ochreous. 



Expanse, S tV, ? ItV inch. 



Genus LAGYRA. 



Lagyra, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. JI. xx. p. 58 (1860). 

 Chizala, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 264 08GO). 



Male. Forewing elongate, triangular, apex produced and falcated ; cell more 



