420 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



lateral lines and a longitudinal siiblateral line. Papa pale purplish-brown, with 

 blackish speckles and segmental marks. 



PINGASA LEUCOSTIGMARIA. 



Boarmui. leucostiijmarid, Nictner, Observations on the Enemies of the Coffee-tree in Ceylon, p. 23 

 (18(il). 

 " Wings greyish-white, beautifully fringed, and marked with dark lines and red 

 pencilling; beneath both are marked with a large black stripe." 

 " Expanse 2 inches." 

 " Larva feeds on the coffee-tree " {Nletner). 



PINGASA MINIMARIA (Plate 192, Fig. 2). 



Hypochroma minhnaria, Gueuee, Phal. i. p. 279 (1857). 

 Hypochroma parvuta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 435 (1860). 



Cinereous-white. Wings speckled with minute grey scales ; crossed by a discal 



slender black denticulated line ; the outer marginal borders traversed by two sinuous 



reddish-ochreous and grey-speckled fasciae; marginal points black. Underside with 



a blackish marginal band, and small inflated cell spot. 



Expanse ts inch. 



Genus ELPHOS. 



Elphos, Guence, Phal. i. p. 285 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 449 (1860). 

 Wings large, broad : forewing triangular ; costa convex, exterior margin slightly 

 sentated ; cell nearly half the length ; first subcostal at nearly one-fourth, second 

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

 oblique, concave, radial from the middle; the middle median at one-6fth, lower fully 

 one-half : hindwing very broad, exterior margin convex, more dentated ; cell nearly 

 lialf the length ; first subcostal near the end ; discocellular obliquely-concave ; middle 

 median at one-fourth, lower at one-half. Body moderately slender, abdomen short ; 

 palpi obUquely ascending, broad, compressed, clothed with long hairy scales, third 

 joint minute, conical ; antenna3 of male broadly bipectinated to near tip, the branches 

 pubescent ; legs long, slender, hind tibi^ slightly thickened, spurs long. 



Type, E. hymenaria. 



ELPHOS HYMENARIA (Plate 193, Fig. 1, <^). 

 Elphof: hymnmria, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 285, pi. 16, fig. 4, ? (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. 

 p. 449. 



Male. Brownish-cinereous : forewing crossed by a cinereous white-bordered 

 bluish-waved anteraedial line, a similar sinuous postmedial, and submarginal sinuous 

 line ; the lines bordered on both sides with contiguous parallel irregular sinuous 

 black-speckled ochreous fasciae; a similar ochreous fascia also across the middle and 



