478 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Body slender ; abdomen not extending beyond liindwings ; palpi porrect, 

 ratlier small, laxly squamous, apex short, obtuse ; antenuce filiform ; legs long, 

 spurs slender. 



Ttj])e, L. CEesiata. 



LARENTIA PERFICITA. 



Lusia perficita, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1809 (1858), j . 

 Lanntia comprensata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1703 (1862),^. 



Brownish-cinereous. Forewing crossed by a narrow subbasal, and a broad 

 medial purplisli cinereous-brown dentated band, the latter traversed by paler-centred 

 brown dentate lines, and enclosing a slender black cell-spot ; the interspace between 

 the bands and also the outer border of the medial band traversed by a brown 

 dentated line ; the broad outer-marginal area also traversed by diffused brown 

 dentated lines and a submarginal white sinuous line : hindwing darker brownish- 

 cinereous, with wavy paler transvei'se fascias and submarginal distinct ciuereous- 

 speckled lunules. Cilia alternated with black. Body stout, cinereous and brown- 

 speckled ; side of palpi, and bands on legs dai'k brown. 



Expanse li*o inch. 



Ceylon. 



Genus EUPITHECIA. 



Eupithecia, Curtis, Brit. Eut. ii. fol. 64 (1825); Stephens, Catal. ii. p. 144 (1829); Iliust. Haust. iii. 



p. 279 (1831); Boisduval, Ind. Meth. p. 208 ; Diipouchel; Lederer; Gueaee; Phal. ii. p. 298 ; 



Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1210. 

 Chloroclystis et Tephroclystia, Hiibner, Verz. p. 323 (1825-7). 

 Dyscymatoge et Trnchla, Hiibner, id. p. 321. 

 Leucocora, Arcyonia et Eticymatoge, Hiibner, id. p. 325. 



Forewing long, narrow, triangular, apex convex ; cell half the length ; first 

 subcostal at one-fourth before end of cell, quadrifid, fifth from end, very slightly 

 touching second close to its base ; sixth also from end of cell ; discocellular very 

 oblique, concave, radial from its middle ; the middle median very close to end, lower 

 at nearly one-third : hindwing obovate ; cell half the length; two subcostals on a 

 footstalk at one-fourth Ijeyond the cell ; discocellular outwardly-concave, radial 

 from above its middle; the middle median near end of cell, lower fully one-third. 

 Body rather stout ; palpi decumbent, stout, extending half beyond the head, laxly 

 squamous, apex obtuse ; antennas very minutely pubescent in front ; legs roughly 

 squamous, hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 



Type, E. absynthiata. 



EUPITHECIA POLYCLEATA. 



Boiys Polyclealis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 998 (1859), ? . 

 Female. Cinereous-brown ; cilia ciuereous-ochreous. Forewing crossed by an 



