506 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex, third joint lanceolate, almost as long 

 as the second ; antenuge bare ; abdomen extending a little beyond the hindwings, 

 apical tuft subquadrate ; logs stout, smooth ; hind tibia? with a short thick fringe, 

 spurs very long. Wings robust, elongate : forewings slightly rounded at the tips ; 

 costa and exterior border very slightly convex, the latter very sHghtly oblique. 

 Neuration as in Psecadla." 



AZINIS HILARELLA (Plate 209, Fig. 3). 

 Acinis lularclln. Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxviii. p. 5-1:2 (1863). 



"Male. Pale slate-colour. Head wiih a black dot on the hind border; palpi 

 white, with four black bands ; thorax with four black dots ; abdomen pale cinereous, 

 luteous at the base. Forewings with eighteen black whitish-bordered dots, and with 

 a row of small submarginal black dots; five of the eighteen are smaller than the 

 others, and are near the submarginal row : hindwings luteous, black at the tips ; 

 fringe cinereous towards the tips. 



Expanse 14 lines." 



Ceylon. 



Genus THEOXENIA., Walsingham. 



Male. Head with appressed coarse scales above ; antennae ciliated, reaching 

 to two-thirds of forewings ; labial palpi recurved, reaching nearly to the base of the 

 autennee ; second joint stout, apical joint half as long as the second, not acutely 

 pointed ; maxillary palpi none ; haustellum long, wide, coarsely scaled at the base ; 

 ocelli none. Forewings elongate, with the costa slightly arched, rounded at the 

 apex; with 12 veins; 7 and 8 from a common stem, 7 terminating in apex, 8 

 in costal margin. Hindwings broad, with a conspicuous brush of hair-like scales 

 near the base on the upperside ; the whole middle portion of the wing on the under- 

 side being tufted with long scales, forming a thick mat ; neuration : — 8 veins ; 3 

 and 4 from a point arising from lower angle of cell ; 5 and 6 from a point ; 6 and 7 

 pai^allel. [Owing to the thickly matted scales, it is impossible to trace the whole 

 system of the venation without denudmg the wings of the scales.] 



THEOXENIA PENICILLATA, Walsingham (Plate 209, Fig. 4, J ). 



Male. Palpi pale grey, touched with brownish about the apex, and with two 

 wide brownish bands around the second joint ; head slaty-grey, with a black spot 

 above at the back ; antennas slaty-grey, pubescent, with two black spots on the 

 upperside of the basal joint, also two beneath ; thorax slaty-grey, with four con- 

 spicuous round black spots above, the posterior pair being somewhat closer to each 

 other than the anterior pair ; a small black spot at the base of each of the patagia. 



