404 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



DIRADES? FIGURARIA. 



Erosia Jiguraria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 850 (1861). 



" Purplish cinereous. Wings rather ample ; lines black, irregular ; interior line 

 much interrupted, exterior line irregularly curved, attenuated behind the middle 

 in the forewing and in the middle of the hindwing ; submargiual line composed of 

 minute dots, which are irregular in the hindwing. Forewing slightly convex along 

 the costa, somewhat rounded at the tips ; hindwing extending beyond the abdomen, 

 with the exterior border slightly bent. 



Expanse 6 lines." 



In Coll. E. L. Layard. 



Family OXYDIIDiE. 



Forewing acute or subfalcate at the apex : hindwing triangular, exterior margin 

 even. Antennas long, broadly bipectinated, ciliated; palpi porrect or obliquely 

 ascending, small ; legs long, slender. 



Genus MARCALA. 

 3farcala, Walker, Catal Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 17(j4 (1862). 



Forewing elongate, triangular, apex acute, subfalcate ; cell very long, about 

 two-thirds the length, narrow at the end ; first subcostal at one-fifth, bifid, slightly 

 touching the costal near its end by a short spur ; third trifid, sixth from end of the 

 cell; disbooellular short, radial from the middle; the middle median at one-fifth, 

 lower at two-fifths : hindwing rather short, triangular, exterior margin convex ; cell 

 half the length ; subcostal much curved at the base, first branch close to end of cell ; 

 discocellular outwardly oblique ; middle median about one-sixth ; lower at one-third. 

 Body short, rather stout ; antennas bipectinated to near the tip, the branches ciliated; 

 palpi ascending, curved, laxly squamose, third joint short, cylindrical; legs long, 

 slender, spurs moderately long, slender. 



Type, M. tiuctaria. 



MARCALA GALBULATA (Plate 185, Fig. 5). 

 Numeria galbulata, FelJer, Novara Eeise, Lep. iv. pi. 133, f. 20 (1875) S. 

 Purphsh-ochreous brown, with a glaucescent tinge: forewing with a transverse 

 inwardly-obUque ochreous-green brown-bordered band, which is traversed by short 

 iudistmct brown strig«, and encloses a brown-bordered white spot at end of the 

 cell ; the band is dilated anteriorly and the borders are inclined inward at their 

 costal end : hindwing with a brown antemedial transverse line. Antennae brown, 

 shaft purphsh-brown ; forelegs brown in front. 

 Expanse It^ inch. 



