436 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



row of white dentate spots, and a narrow medial zigzag band, wliicli is absorbed at 

 the costal end in a large yellowish-bordered purplish patch, and is posteriorly 

 bordered by purplish-red, this colour also bordering the baud across the hindwing. 

 Cilia green, alternated with white. Abdomen above with white spots ; thorax 

 green; vertex aud front of head partly green and white; palpi, legs, and body beneath 

 white; forelegs and tarsi with brown bands. 



Expanse lA inch. 



Genus MAXATES. 



Forewing triangular ; exterior margin acutely deutated ; cell two-fifths the 

 length ; first subcostal close to end, second from the end, quadrifid, sixth also from 

 the end ; discocellular inwardly-oblique, bent above the middle, concave below, the 

 radial from angle ; two upper medians from a short distance beyond end of cell, 

 lower at nearly half before the end : hindwing very short, prolonged hind ward, ex- 

 terior margin acutely deutated, somewhat caudate in the middle ; cell nearly half the 

 length; two subcostals at oue-fifth beyond the cell; discocellular outwardly -oblique, 

 bent above the middle, radial from the angle; two upper medians at one-fourth 

 beyond the cell, lower at one-third before the end. Cilia ample. Body slender ; palpi 

 porrect, second joint extending two-thirds beyond the head, third cylindrical, one- 

 third the length of second in male, nearly as long as second in female ; antennas very 

 l^roadly bipectinated to one-third the tip, branches ciliated; legs slender, hind tibias 

 with two pairs of slender spurs. 



MAXATES C^LATARIA (Plate 196, Fig. 2S, 2a?). 

 Thalassodes avlataria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 552 (1861), S . 



Dark a-reen : forewins^ with a testaceous costal band, which is angled and 

 dentated on the middle of its lower edge ; a testaceous patch at the posterior angle : 

 hindwing with a narrow apical and broad anal testaceous patch. The band and 

 patches with a few short transverse black strigjB. Both wings crossed by a slender 

 white sinuous discal line, that on the hindwing broadly dilated at its costal end ; 

 marginal line slender, black. Cilia testaceous. Thorax green ; abdomen testaceous ; 

 shaft of antenna? and vertex testaceous-white ; front of head, tip of palpi, and fore- 

 legs above ochreous-brown ; body and legs beneath ochreous-white. 



Expanse c? Ito, ? li'o inch. 



Genus AGATHIA. 



Afjathia, Gneoee, Phal. i. p. 380 (1857); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 589 (1861 



Wings broad : forewing rather short, triangular ; cell less than half the length ; 

 first subcostal at one-sixth, second from angle close to end, quadrifid, sixth from 

 the end ; discocellular concave, radial from above the middle ; the middle median 



