418 THE LEPIDOrTERA OF CEYLON. 



acute points ; the middle line encompassing a whitisli luuule at end of the cell ; each 

 line dilated at the costal end ; beyond is a submarginal sinuous fascia with a con- 

 tiguous outer row of small points, and a marginal row of quadrate spots : hindwing 

 with an inner black-speckled sinuous fascia, a whitish-centred lunular cell spot, a 

 sinuous discal line, submarginal sinuous fascia with contiguous outer points, and 

 marginal spots ; all the markings with slightly paler borders. Thorax and abdomen 

 with slender black-speckled bands ; palpi, and forelegs dark brown. Underside 

 brownish-cinereous, with a broad darker submarginal baud, and large cell spot. 

 Expanse 2\ inches. 



OPHTHALMODES ? CARITAEIA. 

 Boarmia Caritaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxi. p. 489 (1860), ^. 



" ]\Iale. Pale cinereous, with a very slight greenish tinge. "Wings with the 

 lines blackish, much denticulated ; submarginal line less denticulated than the 

 other two, here and there slightly double ; marginal dots black ; a broadly blackish 

 bordered ringlet in each disc. Underside with a large bluish spot in each disc, 

 and with a broad brownish border; antenns9 broadly pectinated to seven-eighths 

 the tip. 



" Expanse 22 lines." 



In coll. E. L. Layard. 



Genus RACOTIS. 



Male. Forewiug somewhat elongate, triangular ; exterior margin slightly den- 

 tated ; cell nearly half the length ; first subcostal near end of cell, bifid near its base, 

 third contiguous, trifid, sixth from end of cell ; discocellular concave, radial from 

 the middle ; the middle median close to end of cell, lower at two-fifths ; a vascular 

 cavity above base of the submedian: hindwing short, broad, exterior margin convex, 

 dentated ; cell half the length ; first subcostal and middle median close to end of 

 cell, lower median about one-third. Body rather stout ; palpi porrect, very laxly 

 clothed, second joint extending its length beyond the head, thu'd joint decumbent, 

 cylindrical, about one-third the length of second ; antennge serrated to one-third the 

 tip, with fine cilial tufts from the points ; legs long, rather slender ; hind tibiae 

 tumid, spurs moderately long and slender. 



BACOTIS BOARMIARIA (Plate 192, Fig. 3, 3.?, c? ?, 3/; larva). 



Ilijpochroma hoanniaria, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 282 (1857). 



Boarmia inconclii.<n, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 382 (1860). 



Olivaceous brownish-ochreous. Wings numerously covered with short trans- 

 verse dark olivaceous-brown striga3, which are most numerous externally, and also 

 irregularly form the ordinary disposed transverse sinuous markings, which are much 



