444 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLO.Y. 



ANISODES OVISIGNATA. 



Anisodcs refponsaria, Var. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het B. M. xxii. p. 648, (1861), $ . 



Male and female. Testaceous-yellow, paler beneath. "Wings thickly and 

 diffusedly covered with pale cinereous-purple speckles ; crossed by a very indistinct 

 similar coloured medial fascia, an antemedial and postmedial curved series of distinct 

 black points, some less defined submarginal points, and a marginal row of points : 

 forewing also with a black point in middle of cell, a larger but less distinct point at 

 upper end, and a small point at its lower end : hindwing with a distinct elongate 

 black-bordered white spot across end of cell. Body speckled with cinereous-purple 

 scales ; front of head reddish. 



Expanse, S U%, ? It'tt inch. 



ANISODES CARNEARIA (Plate 199, Fig. 6, 2 .) 

 Anisodes carnearia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 644 (1861), ?. 



Deep ferruginous-red. Marginal points absent. Forewing crossed by an ante- 

 medial, medial, and discal very indistinct dusky-brown zigzag denticulated diffuse 

 line ; a minute white-centred blackish cell spot : hindwing with a similar denticulated 

 discal line, and a well-formed white-centred cell spot. Shaft of antennae and vertex 

 white ; front of head, palpi and forelegs above ferruginous-red. 



Expanse Its inch. 



ANISODES PATRUELIS (Plate 199, Fig. 10, ?). 



Female. Near to A. carnearia. Larger; cinerescent ferruginous-red. "Wings 

 crossed by a very indistinct dusky medial zigzag fascia, a discal and marginal row of 

 black points ; a minute white-centred spot at end of each cell : forewing also with a 

 subbasal series of black points. Shaft of antennjB and vertex deep brownish- 

 ochreous ; front, palpi and forelegs above dai'k reddish-brown. 



Expanse Iitt inch. 



"Punduloya" (E. E. Green). 



ANISODES CALIGATA (Plate 199, Fig. 4, ,?). 

 Anisodes caliijata, Walker, Catal. Lop. Het. B. M. xxv. p. 1584 (1861), ?. 



Pale brownish-ochreous. "Wings thickly speckled with indistinct pale purplish 

 strigfB ; crossed by a discal and marginal row of minute black points : forewing with 

 a small blackish cell spot, and a submarginal series of black points : hindwing with 

 a distinct black-bordered white cell spot. Shaft of antenna and vertex whitish ; 

 front of head, palpi and forelegs above reddish. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



