470 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



AZATA FERRTJGINATA (Plate 205, Fio. 2). 



Ferrno-inons. Winj^s numerously speckled with short transverse dark brown 

 strio-fB : forewing crossed by an indistinct antemedial and medial, and a distinct 

 discal slightly waved dark brown Hue, the latter having a greyish-bronrn outer 

 shade, with more or less distinct blackish medial patch ; marginal line dnrk brown, 

 which is most prominent below the apex : hindwing with an indistinct medial brown 

 line, and a more distinct discal undulated line with outer bordering greyish-brown, 

 patchy, shade ; mai-giual line brown. Underside bright ferruginous, thickly speckled 

 with brown strigas, crossed by a darker medial and discal fascia. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



From Dr. Thwaites' Collection. 



Family FIDONIIDiE. 



Wings broad, entire ; not angular ; almost always speckled; hindwing sometimes 

 differing in colour from the forewiug. Body generally slender ; proboscis slender, 

 often short ; palpi contiguous, rostriform, porrect or incumbent, extending beyond 

 the front ; antennce of male generally pectinated, often plumose, the branches long, 

 slender, often reflexed ; legs slender, smooth, hind tibias rarely incrassated. 

 Flio-ht diurnal. 



Larva elongated, cylindrical ; head globular. Lives generally on low plants. 

 Pupa generally subterranean. 



Genus TEPHRINA. 

 Tephrina, Giieuee, Duponchel's Catal. Lep. p. 2i6 (1844) ; Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 96 (1S57) ; Walker , 



Catal. Lep. Het B. M. xxiii. p. 951 (1«61). 

 Eiichwca (part), Hiibu. Verz. p. 298. 

 Aclactylosis (part), Hiibu. id. p. 304. 

 Eiibolia, Boisduval. Lederer. (wee Dupouohel). 



Male. Forewing elongate, apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly oblirpie and 

 convex hindward; cell half the length ; first subcostal close to end of cell, second at the 

 end, trifid, fifth also from the end ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, concave, radial 

 from the middle; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third : hindwing 

 broad, apex convex, exterior margin hardly angular in the middle; cell half the 

 length; first subcostal from angle immediately before end of cell; discocellular 

 concave ; no radial ; middle median from angle immediately before end of cell, lower 

 at i-wo-fifths. Body slender ; palpi porrect, stout, projecting more than half beyond 

 the head, laxly clothed, apex pointed ; antennfe pectinated to near end, the branches 

 short ; legs squamous, hind tibiae long, spurs short. 

 Ti/pe, T. murinaria. 



