472 THE LEriDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



indistinct, the outer lino prominent and witli an indistinctly darker cinereous- 

 oclireous bordering fascia : liindwing -nitli a medial diffused indistinct line, and a 

 prominent discal line witli bordering darker cinereous-oclireous fascia. Cell spot 

 distinct, brown. AutennjB and vertex oclireous ; front, and palpi blackish; legs 

 cinereous-brown. 



Expanse, <? 1, ? 1 tV iucli. 



Genus PLUTODES. 



Plutodcs, Giienee, Plial. ii. p. 117 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 976 (18G1). 



Male. Forewing short, rounded externally; cell half the length; first subcostal 

 at one-fifth, five-branched, sixth from end of cell; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, slightly concave, radial from above the middle ; two upper medians 

 from end of cell, lower at one-third : hindwing very short and broad, apex and 

 exterior margin very convex ; cell nearly half the length ; two subcostals from end ; 

 discocellular outwardly oblique, concave ; no radial ; two upper medians from end of 

 cell, lower at one-fourth. Body slender ; palpi curved upward, compressed, broad, 

 clothed with fine lax hairy scales, third joint very minute; antennge broadly pectinated 

 on the inner side only to one-third the tip, the branches minutely ciliated ; legs long, 

 slender, squamous ; hind tibia3 with two pair of spurs. 



Tijpe, P. cyclaria. 



PLUTODES TRANSMTJTATA (Plate 205, Fig. 7). 

 Plutodes transmutata, AValker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. JI. xxiii. p. 976 (1861) cJ. 



Gamboge-yellow. Wings with a broad transverse cinereous-red band tapering 

 from below the costal border of forewing to near the ■ anal angle of liindwing, the 

 outer edge of the band being straight, and a very broad oval submarginal band of the 

 same colour on both the wings, the inner edge of the bands being waved. Base of 

 thorax and abdomen above red ; anal tuft yellow ; front of head, palpi, and forelegs 

 above ochreous-yellow. 



Expanse Iro inch. 



Genus CORYMICA. 

 Corymica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 230 (1860). 

 CapriUa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1568 (1866). 



j\Iale. Forewing elongated, narrow ; costa much arcbed at the base, apex acute, 

 falcate, exteiior margin oblique and slightly denticulated, posterior margin lobular at 

 the base ; cell three-fifths the length ; first subcostal about one-third before end of 

 cell, joined to costal for a short distance from near its base ; second at one-sixth, 

 trifid, fifth from end of cell ; discocellular very slender, nearly erect, radial from the 



