494 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



fawn-coloured oblique band, wliicli is concisely bordered on its inner side, and is 



widened liindward ; a costal subapical fawn-coloured spot : hindwing cinereous, with 



darker speckles. Abdomen cinereous. 



Expanse 5 lines." 



Ceylon. 



TORTRIX COFFEARIA. 



Tortn'j- coffearia, Nietner, Observ. ou the Enemies of the Coffee-tree in Ceylon, p. 24 (1861). 



" Shaped like a perpendicular section of a bell. Light brown, clouded more or 

 less with a darker tint of the same colour. 



Expanse 1 inch." 



Ceylon. 



" Larva f inch long, thick, nearly naked, greenish ; head and thoracic plate brown. 

 Found nearly all the year round, not exclusively upon coffee, but also upon a variety 

 of garden plants, the leaves of which it draws together, residing within." {Nietner.) 



Genus PENTHINA. 



Pmthma, Treiischke, Eur. Schmett. vii. p. 227 (1829). 

 Antithcsia (sect. B), Stephens, 111. Haust. iv. p. 89. 



PENTHINA BRYANA. 



Paithina hri/ana, Felder et Rogenh. Voy. Novara, Lep. v. pi. 137, fig. 54 (1875). 



Forewing dark brown ; crossed by an outwardly-oblique pale olivaceous ante- 

 medial band and a narrower irregular postmedial band ; marginal line also olivaceous : 

 hindwing purplish-cinereous. Body brown ; front of thorax olivaceous. 



Expanse fV inch. 



Ceylon. " Ramhodde" (Nietner). 



Genus CNEPHASIA. 

 Sdaphila* Trehschke, Eur. Schmett. vii. p. 233 (1829). 

 Cnephasia, Curtis, Brit. Ent. iii. fol 100 (1826). Stephens, 111. Haust. iv. p. 126 (1834). 



CNEPHASIA FLEXILINEANA. 

 Sciaphila Jlexilineana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 345 (1863). 

 " Brownish-cinereous. Forewing cinereous, partly clouded with brown ; with 

 minute and indistinct transverse brown streaks, and a few black scales ; a brown 

 subcostal stripe, limited in front by an irregular black line, the latter bordered in 

 front by an irregular hoary line ; marginal line brown, zigzag, here and there black ; 

 costa with black points : hindwing brown, fringe dark cinereous. 

 Expanse 9 lines." 

 Ceylon. _^__ 



* Used in 1826 for a genus of Coleoptera. 



