GELECHIIDJE. 521 



marginal series of almost confluent longitudinal streaks followed by a marginal series; 

 tbe medial band wavy on its inner edge and broadly bilobed across the disc on its 

 outer edge, its area being marked with a yellow streak at end of the cell and an outer 

 series of spots curving from the costa: bindwing pale violet-brown ; cilia edged with 

 ochreous. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above ochreous-yellow ; tip of femora and 

 band on fore tibia violet-brown ; abdomen, and band on thorax also violet-brown. 



Expanse, <? to, ? tu inch. 



Ceylon. From Mr. F. M. Mackwood's Collection. 



Genus GERONTHA. 

 Gerontha, Walker, Catal. Lep. llet. B. M. xxix. p. 782 (1864). 



" Female. Wings long and narrow. Forewings rounded at tlie tips ; exterior 

 border convex, very oblique ; discal areolet long ; three inferior veins, the second 

 forked. Body rather slender; head broad, prominent, pilose in front; eyes very 

 prominent ; proboscis very short ; palpi as long as the breadth of the head, second 

 joint thickly hirsute, third squamous, lanceolate, nearly erect, about half the length 

 of second, with which it forms an angle; antennas smooth, rather stout, somewhat 

 shorter than the forewings ; abdomen extending very far beyond the hindwings ; legs 

 long, rather stout ; middle tibiffi pilose ; hind tibia? slightly pilose, with four long 



spurs." 



GERONTHA CAPTIOSELLA. 



Gerontha captiosella. Walker, Catul. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 782 (1864). 



" Female. Brownish-cinereous. Forewings speckled with brown ; a small 

 blackish mark at end of the discal areolet ; marginal points black. Second joint of 

 the palpi beset with stout black hairs ; hind tibiaj clothed with black hairs. 



" Expanse 1-1 lines." 



Ceylon. 



Genus TIMYRA. 



Tmyra, Wa'.ker, Cafal. Lep. Hct. B. M. xxix. p. 782 (1864), $. 

 Uipfit, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 828 (1864), ? . 



Male and female. Wings elongate, moderately broad : forewings rounded at 

 the tips, exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique ; veins much like those 

 of Dcpressarla. Body rather stoxit ; proboscis moderately long; palpi curved, 

 ascending high above the vertex, pubescent, thinly clothed with long hairs in the 

 male, squamous in the female, twice longer than the breadth of the head, third joint 

 lanceolate in male, subulate in female, shorter than second ; antenna) submoniliform, 

 basal joint with a broad tuft of hairs in front ; abdomen extending beyond the hind- 

 wings ; legs broad, tibiaj and tip of hind tarsi densely fringed in male, less so in 

 female. Spurs long. 



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