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speckled ; forelegs witli dark brown bands. Some specimens of the female liave a 

 slender discal spot in botli wings, and the markings on the underside are also 

 distinctly narrower. 



Expanse 1 to lyn inch. 



Ceylon. 



Larva looped ; with 10 legs ; dark olive-green. Pupa reddish, with greenish 



head and wing cases. 



COLLIX (?) CONTRIBUTARIA. 



CoUir (?) contrihvtarki, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. 15. M. xxiv. p. 1249 (1862). 



"Male. Cinereous brown, more cinereous beneath. Wings narrow; interior 

 and exterior lines black, undulating, slightly denticulated ; submarginal line pale, 

 denticulated, almost obsolete. Forewiugs rounded at the tips, exterior border 

 extremely oblique. Vertex flat; palpi very short; antennte stout, convoluted, 

 about half the length of the body, abdomen extending very little beyond the 

 hindwings ; legs bare, rather slender, spurs long. 



" Expanse 9 Hnes." 



Ceylon. In Mr. E. L. Layard's collection. 



Genus REMODES. 

 Savris, Guenee, Phal ii. p. 361 (1857), ? ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1251, ? . 

 Eemodes, Giieuee, Phal. ii. p. 362 (1857), Si Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1253, S- 



Male. Forewing long, costa regularly arched, apex not acute, exterior 

 margin very oblique, slightly convex, and with a very slight cleft above and below 

 end of the lower median, the middle lobe being concave and laxly scaled beneath ; 

 posterior margin straight ; cell nearly half the length ; first subcostal at one-third 

 before end of cell, quadrifid, fifth from end of cell and slightly touching second 

 close to its base, sixth also from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, 

 recurved, radial from above its middle ; the middle median about one-sixth before 

 end of cell, lower at two-fifths; submedian slightly recurved: hindwing small, 

 short, narrow, exterior margin contracted, cleft and folded below the apex and 

 before the posterior angle, the middle lobe being produced, concave beneath and 

 with a covering of short fine hairy scales ; cilia long ; cell very short, less than 

 one-third the length ; subcostals from beyond end of celi ; subcostals and medians 

 much curved and partly hidden in the folds. Body slender ; abdomen extending 

 more than half beyond the hindwings ; palpi porrect, contiguous, very long, flat, 

 squamous, thrice longer than the head, third joint subulate, naked, one-third as long 

 as second ; antennas stout, thickest and flattened along the middle, scaly above, 

 very minutely pubescent in front; fore and middle legs very long, slender, smooth; 

 fore tarsi extremely long; middle tibim with a pair of slender unequal spurs ; hind 

 legs aborted ; hind tibia^ clothed with fine long hairs, which almost cover the tarsi. 



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