446 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Underside with the costal border of forewing broadly bordered with pale reddish- 

 ochreous ; discal points distinct. 



Expanse li^r inch. 



"Dickoja" {E. E. Green). 



Has much the appearance of the Acidalia extimarla. Walker, figured on 

 Plate 204., fig. 5. 



Genus SYNEGIA. 



Synegia, Gueaee, Phal. i. p. 423 (1857) ; Walker, Catal Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxii. p. 653 (1861). 



Male. Forewing rather short, triangular ; cell half the length ; first subcostal 

 at one-fifth, touching the costal near end, second approximate, quadrifid, sixth from 

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

 close to end, lower at two-fifths : hindwing short, triangular, apex convex ; cell 

 neai'ly half the length, broad at its base; first subcostal before end of cell; 

 discocellular outwardly-oblique, concave, radial from the middle ; the middle median 

 close to end, lower nearly half. Body long, slender, apex tufted; frontal tuft 

 pointed ; palpi obliquely ascending, projected beyond the front, very laxly squamous 

 beneath, thii'd joint conical; antenna3 bipectinated ; legs long, slender, smooth, 

 middle tibias with a pair of long slender spurs, hind tibiae with two pairs of long 

 spurs. 



Ty2oe, S. botydaria. 



SYNEGIA IMITAEIA. 



Anisodes imitaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. G 43 (1861), $. 

 Anisodcs ohrimaria. Walker, id. xxii. p. 644 (1861), (J. 



Pale ochreous-yellow. "Wings distinctly speckled with brownish-ochreous ; the 

 speckles partly confluent across the outer border and there form a submarginal more 

 or less blotched fascia; marginal points blackish; a blackish dot at end of each 

 cell : forewing with a transverse sinuous greyish-ochreous bordered antemedial line 

 and a prominent brownish discal line : hindwing with a similar discal line. Costa 

 of forewing chalybeous brownish-ochreous, with darker speckles. Thorax, head, and 

 palpi with brownish-ochreous bands ; abdomen with dorsal yellow-centred bands ; 

 collar chalybeous brownish-ochreous ; forelegs ochreous. 



Expanse I4 inch. 



Genus BORBACHA. 



Near to Synegia. Both wings longer and narrower. Exterior margin of 

 hindwing sinuous. Venation similar. Antennas of male broadly pectinated on the 

 outer side only, the branches stout ; palpi much narrower, smoothly clothed, tliird 

 joint slender, pointed. 



Tijpe, B. pardaria. 



