450 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLOK. 



less broken wavy denticulated bands, which are pai'tly confluent along the costal 

 border ; a darker spot at end of cell : hindwing with irregularly broken similar outer 

 bands, a small spot at end of cell, one below its base, and a quadrate spot on middle 

 of abdominal margin. Front of thorax, and bands on abdomen, silvery cinereous-red ; 

 tip of palpi red. 



Expanse, c? 1. ' 1^^ i^^^^^- 



Genus PSEUDASTHENA. 



Allied to Asthena. Outline of wings similar to A. luteata : forewing with the 

 first subcostal five branched, the fifth being emitted from below at about one-third 

 from its base, sixth from end of cell : hindwing with the subcostals and two upper 

 medians at about one-fourth beyond end of the cell. Antenna very broadly 

 bipectinated to one-third the tip, the branches finely ciliated. 



Type, P. lunulosa. 



PSEUDASTHENA LUNULOSA (Plate 200, Fig. 5, 5a, ^ ? ). 



Deep yellow. Wings crossed by apparently eight cinereous purple-red lunular 

 bands, of which the outer is submarginal and the thickest, those across the middle 

 of forewing sometimes confluent ; a darker spot at end of each cell. Front of thorax 

 purple-red ; shaft of antennge and vertex white ; front of head deep yellow. 



Expanse S 2 tV inch. 



PSEUDASTHENA DISSIMILIS (Plate 199, Fig. 7). 



Light yellow. Forewing crossed by basal, subbasal, discal, and marginal 

 brownish-ochreons lunular bands ; the two middle bands broadest and dilated 

 anteriorly: hindwing with narrower lunular bands. Thorax in front brownish- 

 ochreous ; head ochreous-yellow ; palpi and legs light yellow. 



Expanse r? inch. 



PSEUDASTHENA MEMORATA (Plate 199, Fig. 8, ? ). 

 Pomasia memorata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxii. p. 657 (1861), ? . 



Yellow. Wings with several narrow slender denticulated red bands, of which 

 the middle band is curved, difl;used, and most prominent. Body with red bands. 

 Expanse ? ttj inch. 



PSEUDASTHENA RHODINARIA. 



Ili/ria rhodinuria, Walker, Catal. Lop. Ilet. B. ]M. sxii. p. 666 (1861). 



" Male. Rosy-red. Wings semihyaline ; irregularly and more or less overspread 

 with rosy-red, which chiefly prevails about the base and along the exterior border ; 



