446 THE LEFIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



POMASIA PSYLARIA (Plate 200, Fig. 2, ^). 

 Pomnsia psylaria, Guenee, Pbal. i. p. 428 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 65G (1861). 



Oclireous-recl. Wings crossed by four silvery greyish-wliite angulated blackish- 

 bordered bands, and a marginal series of dentate spots along the veins ; the bands 

 terminating before the costa, which is black streaked; between the bands are some 

 contiguous dentate silvery marks ; outer margin with some black marks which here 

 and there extend across the cilia. Body with blackish-bordered silvery-white bands ; 

 front of head and bands on palpi white ; legs pale ochreous, forelegs with blackish 

 bands. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Genus HYRIA, 



Hyria, Stephens, Catal. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 150 (1829); id. Illust. Haust. iii. p. 292 (18.3Ij ; Gueuee, 



Phal. i. p. 428 (1857); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 658. 

 Eois (part), Hiibiier, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 308. 

 Acidalia (part), Lederer, Vers. Eur. Span. pp. 9, 27. 



Forewing moderately long, triangular ; apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly 



convex ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal at neai'ly half, second at 



one-fifth, quadrifid ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from the middle ; the 



middle median from angle near end, lower at one-fourth : hindwing short, convexly 



angular in the middle ; cell broad, fully half the length ; two subcostals at half 



length beyond the cell ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from the middle ; the 



middle median near end, lower nearly half before end. Cilia broad. Body short ; 



palpi porrect, short, and laxly squamous ; antennas serrated, the points ciliated in 



male ; setaceous in female ; legs slender, hind tibios with one pair of long apical 



spurs. 



Tijpc, H. auroraria. 



HYRIA MARCIDARIA. 



Hyria marcidaria, "Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 663 (1861). 



Yellowish, shining, silky. "Wings crossed by oblique antemedial, medial, and 

 postmedial rosy-red undulating nearly parallel diffuse lines ; exterior margin also 

 suS'used with rosy-red. Head, palpi, and forelegs rosy-red. 



Expanse \ inch. 



Genus MICR^SCHUS. 

 Micrcrschus, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 402. 



Wings small. Forewing rather narrow, apex pointed, exterior margin angular 

 in middle : hindwing short, exterior margin angular in middle. Body short; palpi 

 porrect, slender; antennae minutely ciliated; legs smooth; hind tibite with two 

 slender long spurs. 



Ti/pe, M. elataria. 



