TINEIDjE. 505 



its length, very narrow; costal straight ; first subcostal close to end; discocellular 

 inwardly-oblique, two radials at equal distances apart ; a slender veinlet emitted 

 within the cell from upper radial; middle median at one-fifth, lower about two-fifths; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body rather stout ; abdomen extending half 

 beyond the hindwings ; proboscis long, slender ; palpi ascending, reaching to vertex, 

 slender, squamous, third joint linear, acute, as long as the second ; antenna minutely 

 serrated ; legs squamous, rather stout ; middle tibias with a pair of stout spurs, hind 

 legs in male aborted, slender, femora fringed with silky hairs, spurs obsolete ; hind 

 legs in female stout, tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Type, A. niveigutta. 



ATTEVA IMPARIGUTTELLA (Plate 209, Fig. 2). 

 Oeta imimricjuttella, Zeller, HorsB Ent. Soc. Eoss. xiii. p. 224, pi. 3. f. 77 (1S77). 

 Forewing cupreous-red, with four outwardly-oblique series of large pure white 

 spots ; some small spots also disposed along the costa : hindwing and abdomen 

 golden-yellow. Thorax cupreous-red ; white spotted ; vertex, front of head, and 

 base of palpi white ; palpi and antennce brownish ; legs yellow. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 

 Ceylon. " Colombo " (MachiwwJ). 



Genus PRAYS. 

 Prays, Hiibner, Verz. p. 413 (1825-7) ; Stainton, Ins. Brit. Tineina, p. 64 (1854). 



PRAYS (?) PLAGIFERELLA. 



Prays (?) plagiferella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B.M. xxviii. p. .540 (1863). 



" Male. Testaceous-whitish ; stout. Forewings hardly acute ; with some minute 

 black speckles, a few of which form two or three small dots near the base ; two 

 fawn-coloured patches, one forming an oblique incomplete band, the other extending 

 along the exterior border ; two cinereous discal spots, one on each side of the first 

 patch ; first spot elongated, oblique, second nearly round. Head pubescent ; palpi 

 a little longer than the breadth of the head, second joint broadly fringed beneath, 

 third lanceolate, shorter than the second, with a black subapical band; antennte 

 stout, minutely setulose, shorter than the forewings^ abdomen extending fully half 

 beyond hindwings. 



Expanse 7 lines." 



Ceylon. 



Genus AZINIS. 

 Azinis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 541 (1863). 



"Male. Body stout, smooth; proboscis short; palpi smooth, curved, obliquely 



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