492 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Streaks : forewing Tyith a lirownish patch, which occupies much more than half the 

 exterior part of the costa, and forms an angle in middle of the disc, whence it is 

 narrowed to the tip of the costa ; a few black erect scales here and there in the disc 

 and some black minute marginal points. 



Expanse 10 lines." 



Ceylon. 



TERAS EXTENSANA. 



Teras extenaana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 296 (1863). 



" Cinereous fawn-colour. Wings brown-speckled : forewing with a darker fawn- 

 coloured costal stripe, which occupies more than half the exterior length of the wing, 

 and nearly half its breadth ; speckles here and there blackish ; costa with four blackish 

 marks along its exterior part : hindwings cinereous. 



Expanse 12 lines." 



Ceylon. 



Genus CACCECIA. 



Caccecia, Hiibner, Verz. p. 388 (1825-7). 



Lozotwnia, Stephens, Catal. ii. p. 169 (1829) ; id. 111. Haust. iv. p. 69 (1835). 



CACCECIA MICACEANA (Plate 208, Fig. 1). 

 Caccecia micaceana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 314 (1863). 



" Male. Ochraceous. Foi-ewings spangled with chalybeous scales ; two fer- 

 ruginous interrupted bands, the first broader than the second ; fringe ferruginous, 

 except towards the interior angle ; costa convex towards the base, slightly concave 

 exteriorly ; tips rounded, but prominent, exterior border not oblique, except by the 

 interior angle : hindwings with the costa blackish towards the tip. Abdomen, hind- 

 wings, and underside brighter ochraceous ; abdomen extending beyond the hindwings ; 

 palpi slender, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint very 

 minute. 



Expanse 9 lines." 



Walker's type of this species is from Hongkong. It is recorded by Lord 

 Walsingham from Poena, and Dharmsala, Punjab, m Proc. Zool. Soc. 188G, p. 881. 



Genus DICHELIA. 



Dichelia, Giicuee, Ann. Eut. Soc. Fr. 1845, p. 141. 



DICHELIA RETRACTANA (Plate 208, Fig. 11). 

 Dichelia retractana. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 322 (1863.) 

 " Female. Cinereous. Wings with numerous minute transverse brown streaks, 

 Avliich are most apparent on the underside. Porewings acute, with two brown black- 

 marked costal spots, one near the base, the other at two-thirds of the length ; an 



