398 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



streaks ; costa with two nearly triangular pale brownish spots : hindwiug more 

 thickly covered with paler and more minute points. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Hdh. Ceylon. In collection of B. L. Layard. 



Family EROSIIDJE. 



Forewing either long and narrow, or short and broad, sometimes dentate : 

 hiudwing short, generally broad, dentate or notched, in some almost caudate. Both 

 wings in some genei'a longitudinally convoluted when at rest. Palpi slender, porrect, 

 or incumbent ; antennas short, curly, robust, velvety, crenulated, rarely pectinate in 

 the male. 



Larva with 16 legs; cylindrical, truncate at the end; with a few short fine 

 hairs. Pupa short, stout, head broad ; formed in a slight web. 



Note. — The genera comprised in this family were arranged by Gueuee and 

 Walker with the Microniida3. They have, however, no aflBnity with that family, and 

 should be removed near to the Agaristidse and ChalcosiidiB. 



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Genus GATHYNIA. 



Gathynia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1639 (1862). 



Wings small. Forewing narrow, apex almost convex, exterior margin oblique 

 and slightly convex ; cell half the length ; first subcostal from about one-third before 

 end of cell, bifid at one-third from its base, third close to and almost touching the 

 first its entire length, bifid near its end, fifth from very close to end of cell, sixth 

 from the end ; discocellular slender, zigzag, radial from upper angle ; middle median 

 close to end of cell, lower at two-thirds : hindwing very short, costa very convex at 

 the base, concave towards the end, exterior margin outwardly oblique anteriorly, 

 dentated, the cilia long at the angles ; cell half the length ; costal much recurved ; 

 two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular very slender, radial from the middle ; 

 two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-half before the end. Body rather 

 stout ; antennas stout, curly, compressed, laminated in front, the blades not separated ; 

 palpi slender, linear, slightly oblique, smooth, projecting beyond the head ; legs 

 rather short, stout, smoothly squamojJis, spurs long. Has the habit of convoluting 

 the forewings when at rest. 



Tijpi', G. miraria. 



GATHYNIA MIRARIA (Plate 187, Fig. 4.) 

 Gathijnia Miraria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1639 (1862). 



Cinereous-brown, darker speckled ; forewing with an indistinct darker spot at 



