402 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLOX. 



svibmarginal ferruginous-bordered black sinuous line. Front of head, palpi, and 

 forelegs blackish. 



Expanse 1 to lyV inch. 



Taken at " Pelloya " {Green.) 



LIRADES RHAGAVATA (Plate 186, Fig. 3). 

 Erosia Rhwjavata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 848 (1861), 9. 



Whitish cinereous, with numerous short transverse very pale brown strig93 : 

 forewing crossed by an indistinct ferruginous-speckled antemedial line, and a waved 

 postmedial line ; some black speckled points below the apex : hind wing with the 

 medial area from the base devoid of brown strigse ; with a ferruginous-bordered white 

 discal line, which is slightly curved to the median vein, where it is convexly 

 angular, and from thence waved to al)ove anal angle, its upper end being dusky 

 speckled ; a blackish cinereous-bordered sinuous submargiual line, and some black 

 apical dots ; a ferruginous line at end of the cell, which is continued up the median 

 to its base. Front of head, and legs in front whitish. 



Expanse lyV inch. 



DIRADES LILACINA (Plate 186, Fig. 4). 



Pale lilacine-grey : forewing sparsely flecked with pale brown ; with two trans- 

 versely disposed antemedial black dots, a ferruginous-speckled bordered blackish 

 postmedial irregular short line, below which is a constricted conical blackish- 

 bordered ferruginous spot ; an upper submargiual ferruginous-bordered black 

 lunular line : hindwing with the anterior border devoid of brown flecks ; the pos- 

 terior half darker, with ferruginous and prominent black flecks ; a transverse re- 

 curved slender black-bordered white discal line, which is angulated below the middle, 

 and has a dark ferruginous upper patch near its lower end ; a ferruginous streak 

 at end of cell, a submargiual ferruginous-bordered black sinuous line. Front of 

 head, palpi, and forelegs black. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Taken at "Bamagalla, Dec." (Machvood.) 



DIRALES PARVULA (Plate 186, Fig. 5.) 

 Nearest allied to D. Vdac'ma. Smaller ; pale greyish-ochreous, minutely brown 

 speckled : forewing witli some darker flecks along the costa ; a recurved antemedial 

 indistinct blackish-speckled line, and a postmedial angulated ferruginous-brown line, 

 which is blackish at the costal end, and is indistinctly continuous with a dusky 

 black patch on the posterior mai'gin ; a curved sinuous submargiual line, which is 

 brown-bordered below the apex : hindwing with a subbasal blackish speckled line, 

 an acutely angular pale-bordered black discal line with a blackish upper patch near 



