100 THE LEPinOPTERA OF CEYLON: 



antemedial blackisli-bordered cinereous line, wbicli is curved upward and forms a 

 similar postmedial line, and below it is a large pale-bordered dark brown, almost 

 black, conical patch on the posterior margin ; outer border traversed by a sub- 

 marginal series of small blackish-speckled spots : hindwing with a pale slender 

 cinereous antemedial and a curved discal line, the inner and basal area being mostly 

 dusky ferruginous ; a submarginal series of minute black speckled spots. 



Exjoanse xo inch. 



DIRADES FRUNAEIA. 



Dark cinereous purplish-brown, sparsely black speckled : forewing with an ill- 

 defined slightly ferruginous-bordered darker medial costal triangular-shaped patch, 

 lielow which is a similar posterior patch, both appearing almost as a transverse 

 constricted band ; a submarginal black slender Kne : hindwing crossed by an 

 indistinct ferruginous waved discal line, and a less distinct similar marginal line. 



Expanse ttt inch. 



DIRADES ADJUTARIA (Plate 186, Fig. 9). 



Erosia adjutaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 849 (1861j, $ . 

 Erosiu verticaria, Fekler et Rogen. Lep. Nov. Raise, pi. 128, f. 7 (1875). 



Cinereous-brown : forewing with an outwardly-oblique shox^t medial and a post- 

 medial ferruginous-bordered cinereous line, the outer line being curved at its lower 

 end, but not joined to the inner line ; a similar coloured curved line on the posterior 

 boi^der, the inner area of which is blackish-ferruginous ; exterior margin narrowly 

 ferruginous, with a slender submarginal sinuous black-bordered cinereous line : 

 hindwing crossed by a curved medial and angulated discal ferruginous-bordered 

 cinereous line, and a submarginal sinuous black-bordered cinerous line; the area 

 between the medial and discal lines being dusky ferruginous. 



Expanse -^ inch. 



Taken at " Dickoyia " {Green). 



DIRADES OBSCURARIA (Plate 186, Fig 6). 



Cinereous-ochreous, flecked with short brown strigas : forewing with an outwardly 

 curved transverse antemedial and a postmedial ferruginous-brown diffuse line, both 

 angulated outward in the middle, the latter line ending in a ferruginous spot on 

 the posterior margin ; a submarginal series of minute black points ; some blackish 

 flecks along the costal border : hindwing with a medial and discal pale-bordered 

 ferruginous angulated line, and a similar sinuous mai-ginal line. Front of head, 

 palpi, and forelegs blackish. 



Expanse tV inch. 



Taken at " Panduloya " {Green). 



