486 THE LEPIDOPTFAiA OF CEYLON. 



triangular dorsal bands. Thorax, head, palpi above and forelegs dark brown; 

 palpi beneath red. Female. Forewing with the broad curved basal pale-edged 

 baud and inner part only of the discal band dark-brown, the interspace between the 

 two bands more or less pale greyish-red, the outer half of the wing being also more 

 or less greyish-red, sometimes grey, and crossed by denticulated brown lines, the 

 angulated pale-bordered black outer-line of the discal band, and the subraarginal 

 sinuous line dilated at the costal end and indistinct hindward ; black spot at end of 

 cell prominent. 



Expanse, <? 1, ? t-cj to Itu inch. 



Ceylon (Mdclcwood). 



" Punduloya" {Green). 



Genus PLEMYRIA. 



Plemyna, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 334 (1825-7). 

 Phibalaptenjx (part), Stephens, III. Haust. iii. p. 255. 

 Camptogramma (part), Guenee ; Walker. 



Male. Forewing triangular ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal at 

 one-third before end of cell, quadrifid, fifth from angle immediately before the end, 

 touching second above its base, sixth from the end ; discocellular very slender, 

 concave, radial from the middle ; the middle median close to end of cell, lower at 

 one-tliird : hindwing broad, apex convex, exterior margin convex in the middle ; 

 cell nearly half the length, broad; two subcostals at one-third beyond the cell; 

 discocellular concave, lower end obhque, long, radial from above the middle; two 

 upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth. Body slender, short ; palpi 

 porrect, broad, pointed in front, very laxly clothed beneath, extending two- 

 thirds beyond the head ; antennae biciliated ; legs slender, hind tibiie with two pairs 

 of slender spurs. 



Tijpe, P. fluviata. 



PLEMYRIA BACCATA (Plate 206, Fig. 7). 



Caiiiptof/raimiia haccata, GuL'uee, Phal. ii. p. 430 (1857) ; Walker, C.'ital. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxv. 



p. 1327 (18G2). 

 Cularia peracutata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxv. p. 1421 (1862). 



Forewing cinereous-ferruginous ; crossed by a subbasal, antemedial, medial, 

 discal, and a submarginal slender -white-bordered blackish denticulated line ; the 

 area between the antemedial and medial line dusky-cinereous, within which is a 

 large white spot at end of the cell : hindwing dusky-cinereous, with indistinct 

 darker slightly whitish-bordered limular fascite. Forelegs with blackish bauds. 



Expanse to inch. 



" Punduloya." 



Allied to the European P. gemmata. 



