504 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



much paler on the hindlegs. Female. Forewing with the exterior and posterir 

 border almost of the same brown colour as the anterior border. Palpi, and band 

 on legs paler. 



Expanse, c? Ifo, ? Ittt inch, 



Ceylon. From Dr. Thwaites' Collection. 



Family HYPONOMEUTIDiE. 



" Wings elongate, with moderate or rather short ciliiB. Head rough or smooth ; 

 labial palpi of moderate length ; maxillary palpi absent ; proboscis of moderate 

 length, mostly naked. 



Larva frequently gregarious, living in a common web." {Stalnton.) 



Genus HYPONOMEUTA. 



l>?jome«;a, Latroille, Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 250 (1802); id. Reg. An. iii. p. 579 (1817) ; Treitschke, 

 Eur. Sch. ix. i. p. 208 (1832) ; Stephens, III. Haust. iv. p. 242 (1834) ; Zeller, Isis, 1839, p. 194. 

 Hyponomeuta, Zeller, Isi.';, 1844, p. 199. 

 Nijgmia, Hiibuer, Verz. p. 412 (1825-7). 



HYPONOMEUTA ALIENELLUS. 

 Hyponomcvta aUenelhis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 532 (1863). 



"Male. Dark cinereous. Forewings with numerous minute black points: 

 hindwings a little paler. Head with four black points ; thorax with seven black 

 points; abdomen extending much beyond the hindwings, with a large apical tuft 

 and two long narrow apical appendages, which are curved downward ; legs with a 

 black point on each anterior femora and tibite. 

 Expanse 12 lines." 

 Ceylon. 



Genus ATTEYA. 

 Attenn, Walker, Cat.ak Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. o2G (1854). 

 Amhloihridia, Wallengren, Resa Eugenie, v. p. 385 (1861). 

 Corinca, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 542 (1863). 



Male. Forewing long, apex rounded, exterior margin hardly oblique; cell 

 four-fiftlis the length, bent downward at the end, disposed towards the middle of the 

 wing ; first subcostal at half before the end, second at one-eighth, third and fourth 

 close to end, fifth from the end ; discocelkilar inwardly-oblique, two radials at equal 

 distances apart ; a slender veinlet emitted within the cell from fourth subcostal and 

 is joined to the sul)costal at half way between the first and second branches ; middle 

 median from angle close to end of cell, lower at one-seventh ; submedian with a 

 lower basal branch at nearly one-third its length: hindwiug long; cell two-thirds 



