BOARMIID^. 417 



base, apex not acute, exterior margin slightly convex and dentate ; cell fully half the 

 length at upper end, longer at the lower end ; first subcostal from angle close to end 

 of cell, bifid, third approximate, trifid, sixth from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, concave, radial from the middle; two upper medians from end of cell, 

 lower at one-third : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin very convex, dentate ; cell 

 about three-fifths ; first subcostal very close to end ; discocellular very oblique, con- 

 cave at upper end ; middle median near end of cell, lower at one-third. Body rather 

 slender, frontal tuft lax ; palpi porrect, pilose, second joint long, third joint minute, 

 conical; antenng9 bipectinated and cihated to near tip; legs smooth, hind tibife 

 incrassated, spurs long, slender. 



BYLAZORA CEYLONICA (Plate 193, Fig. 4, 4a, <J ? )• 

 Greyish-white. Wings thickly covered with confluent greyish-browu flecks : 

 forewing crossed by an oblique antemedial, medial, and a postmedial denticulated 

 black line, and a less defined sinuous submarginal fascia, each dilated at the costal 

 end ; marginal points black : hindwing with a similar medial and discal line, and 

 di9"used submarginal fascia. Body grey flecked ; abdomen with narrow blackish 

 dorsal bands ; tip of palpi, and legs above brown. 

 Expanse, 1| to 1| inch. 



Genus OPHTHALMODES. 



Ophthalmodes, Gueuee, Phal. i. p. 283 (1857); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 446. 



Forewing elongate, triangular ; exterior margin slightly convex and dentated ; 

 cell nearly half the length ; costal vein bifid near its end ; first subcostal at one- 

 sixth, free, second contiguous, trifid, fifth from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, concave, radial from above the middle ; the middle median near end of cell, 

 lower fully half: hindwing short, broad, exterior margin convex, dentated ; cell nearly 

 half the length ; first subcostal close to end ; discocellular outwardly concave ; middle 

 median close to end, lower nearly half. Body rather stout, abdomen smooth; palpi 

 obliquely porrect, stout, laterally broad, clothed with long lax hairy scales, second 

 joint projecting partly beyond the front, third joint very short, thick ; antennas in 

 male broadly bipectinated to one-third the tip, branches ciliated ; in female moderately 

 bipectinated ; legs moderately long, squamous, spurs long, stout. 



Type, 0. herbidaria. 



OPHTHALMODES HERBIDARIA (Plate 191, Fig. 4, ? ). 

 Ophthalmodes herlidaria, Giienee, Phal. i. p. 283 (18.57) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 446. 

 Olivaceous-ochreous : forewing crossed by a sharply defined black-speckled 

 sinuous antemedial, medial, and a postmedial line, the two latter lines with very 



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