520 THE LEPIDOFTERA OF CEYLON. 



This and the following species would be properly included in the Crypto- 

 lechiad^ of Meyrick, but their neuration does not agree with that of the typical 

 Cryptolechia of Zeller. Veins G and 7 of the hindwings are joined at the base, not 

 sei)arate or parallel ; veins 2 and 3 of the forewings are from a common stem, as are 

 also 7 and S. Many species having similar venation were subsequently included in 

 the revision of the genus. 



CRYPTOLECHIA TRIPUSTULATA, Walsingham (Plate 209, Fig. 8). 



Head dull brown ; antennas setaceous, pale cinereous ; palpi dull brown. Fore- 

 wings dull brown, tinged in places with faint ochreous ; a small deep brown spot near 

 the base, aliove the middle of the wing a large and conspicuous dark brown, almost 

 black patch beyond and below it, reaches to the dorsal margin, and is followed by a 

 smaller patch of the same colour, occupying the end of the cell ; these are all narrowly 

 and irregularly margined with faint ochreous. On the outer foui'tli of the costal 

 margin is a pale ochreous patch, with a faint trace of a similar marking opposite to it 

 on the dorsal margin ; fringes grey, pale ochreous along their base. Hindwings and 

 fringes pale cinereous. Abdomen the same, with ferruginous bands across the upper 

 side of each segment. 



Espanse of wings 17 mms. 



Ceylon. 



Genus DAVENDRA, 



Forewing elongate, rectangular at the tips ; costa very slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin erect ; cilia short ; cell three-fifths the length ; first subcostal 

 at half before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, third and fourth fi'om end of cell, 

 fourth bifid ; discocellular outwardly-obhque, slender, radials near upper and lower 

 end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-seventh before the end ; sub- 

 median witli a lower l_n-anch at one-fourth from the base : hindwing moderately short 

 ami narrow, apex convex, cell fully half the length; two subcostals at half beyond 

 the cell ; discocellular slender, bent below the middle, radial from the angle ; middle 

 median near end of cell, lower at about one-fifth. Body moderately stout, extending 

 f)ne-third beyond the hindwings, laxly clothed with broad scales ; eyes large ; palpi 

 long, narrow, curved upward, tips approximated, second joint reaching above the 

 vertex, widened at the tip on the inner side, squamous, third joint slender, pointed, 

 about one-third the length of second; antenna^ biciliated to the tip in male ; legs 

 robust, middle and hind tibiae hirsute, spurs long and slender. 



Tijpe, D. Mackwoodii. 



DAVENDRA MACKWOODII (Plate 211, Fig. 13, q ). 

 Forewing ochreous-yellow ; with an interrupted basal, and a very broad irregular- 

 shaped medial pale violet-brown band, beyond which is a contiguous incurved sub- 



