CABKUIID^. 463 



length, first subcostal near end ; discocellular concave, radial from middle ; the 

 middle median near end, lower at two-fifths. Body slender, short; palpi small, 

 porrect, short, laxly clothed, apex minute; antennae bipectinated to near end, the 

 branches ciliated ; legs slender ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Type, D. pusaria. 



DEILINIA COSTATA (L'latk 203, Fia. 4 ; 204, f. 3, ^J). 



White ; glossy. Wings very sparsely speckled with minute cinereous scales : 

 forewing crossed by four and hindwing by thi'ee indistinctly defined straight cinereous- 

 speckled bands ; marginal points and cell spot black, minute. Costal edge of 

 forewing, and collar, ochreous. Base of antennis and vertex pure white ; front of 

 head, palpi, and forelegs above dai'k brown. 



Expanse, $ fn, 2 1 inch. 



" Newra Elliya (May)," Machwood. 



" Punduloya" {Green). 



Genus TERPNOMICTA. 



Stejajria* Gueuee, Dupoucbel's Catal. Lep. p. 270 (1844) ; Gucnee, Phal. ii. p. 43 (1S57) ; Walker. 



Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 860. 

 Anagoga et Lomoijra/ilia (part), Hiibner, Veiz. pp. 294, 311. 

 Tcrpnomicta, Lederer, Vers. Eur. Span. pp. 3.5, 97 (18.53). 



Male. Forewing elongate, apex obtuse, exterior margin very slightly oblique ; 

 cell half the length; first subcostal at one-sixth, second from angle very close to 

 end, trifid, fifth from end ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from the naiddle ; 

 the middle median from angle close to end, lower at two-fifths: hindwing with the 

 exterior margin slightly convex and angular in the middle ; cell fully half ; first 

 subcostal from angle close to end ; discocellular concave, no radial, middle median 

 from angle close to end of cell, lower at nearly half. Body slender ; palpi porrect, 

 extending a little beyond the head, second joint very laxly pilose beneath, third 

 joint slender, pointed ; antennfe strongly bipectinated to near tip, the branche-s stout; 

 legs rather shoi^t, hind tibias with two pairs of spurs (7'. ■peniniiata). 



TERPNOMICTA NIGRARENARIA. 



Stcijania{?) nigrarcnaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. llet. B. M. xxiii. p. 864 (1861). 



"Male and female. Pale cinereous; minutely speckled with black ; wings with 

 dull ochreous-brown denticulated lines ; submarginal line diffuse ; marginal festoon 

 deep black ; a discal black dot in each wing, representing the reniform mark in the 

 forewing, 



* UieJ in 1830 for u genus of Dipttra. 



