CHOREUTID^. 407 



Larva with IG legs. Feeds ou low plants, enclosed in a white web. 

 Pupa enclosed in a firm white cocoon. 



Genus SIMAETHIS. 

 Simaethis, Leach, Edin. Enc. ix. p. 135 (1815). Samouelle, Ent. U. C. p. 254 (1819). Stephens, III. 



Haiist. iv. p. 28 (1834). 

 AnthopMla* Haworth, Lep. Biit. p. 471 (1812). 

 Xylopoda, Latr. Fam. Nat. 476 (182.5). 



SIMAETHIS BUTHTJSALIS. 

 Simaethis Buthnsalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 454 (1863). 

 "Male. Blackish. Forewings with three irregular whitish bands; second band 

 broader than the first, composed of three spots, of which the hindmost is the largest ; 

 marginal dots deep black, each accompanied by a glittering chalybeous point : hind- 

 wings with two whitish spots, which form a widely interrupted band ; a large exterior 

 very pale fawn-coloured spot ; marginal line whitish. Body white and shining beneath; 

 legs white ; tibi* and tarsi with blackish bands. 

 Expanse 4 lines." 



Ceylon. 



SIMAETHIS TAPROBANES. 



Simaethis tajirobanes, Zeller, Horae Soc. Ent. Ross. 1877, p. 178. pi. 2. f. 65. 



Luteous-brown. Forewing with irregular transverse basal and medial ferruginous 

 fascijB, and some short longitudinal stripes on the exterior border ; cilia alternated 

 with ferrngiuous : hindwing with dilated ferruginous streaks from the base, and a 

 transverse submarginal narrow fascia ; cilia ferruginous. 



Expanse 4 lines. 



Ceylon. 



SIMAETHIS ELATELLA. 



SimMtkis elatella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 455 (18G3). 



" Male. Cinereous-brown. Wings with an abbreviated exterior white line ; 

 marginal points metallic-purple or cupreous ; fringe partly white : forewings with some 

 sHght transverse cinereous lines ; reniform mark represented by an oblique brownish 

 white-bordered streak, having a little longitudinal white streak behind it : hindwings 

 with a large white discal streak. 



Exj^anse 4^ lines." 



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



Family LIPUSIDiE. 

 Genus MICROCOSSUS. 

 Female. Forewing long, narrow, ovate ; cell fully two-thirds the length, disposed 



* Used bj Hiibner (Tentamen, p. 2. 1806) for a genus of Lepidoptera. 

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