522 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



TIMYRA PHYCISELLA. 



Thnyraphyci sella, Walker, Catal. L:p. Ilet. B. M. xxix. p. 783 (1S64), S- 

 Uipsa Perimulla, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. xxix. p. 828 (18(Ji), ?. 



Male and female. Cinereous-yellowisli. Forewings with three cupreous bands ; 

 first band basal, second and third very broad, second contracted towards the costa, 

 irregularly connected with the third, which is submarginal; marginal line dark 

 cupreous; fringe cupreous, cinereous at the base. Head and palpi cupreous; 

 antennjB testaceous ; tibia? mostly cupreous, fringed with cupreous hairs ; hind tarsi 

 cupreous, with cupreous hairs towards the tips. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Ceylon. 



TIMYRA CINGALENSIS, Walsingham (Plate 209, Fig. 12). 



Head with erect mixed subochreous and purplish scales above the eyes ; face 

 smooth ; antennsB ochreous, with conspicuous tufts on the basal joint beneath, these 

 are greyish with a slight purplish tinge ; palpi very long, much recurved, the apical 

 joint acutely pointed, the second joint somewhat flattened with long hair-like scales 

 above and beneath. Forewings pale straw-white, with a small tuft of raised purplish 

 scales below the costal margin near the base, above and connected Avith Avhich an 

 attenuated purphsh shade extends from the base nearly to the middle of the wing ; 

 immediately beyond the middle is a purplish straight band, or fascia, divided into 

 two parts by a slender yellow line from costal to dorsal margin ; from this fascia a 

 yellow line extends around the costal and apical margin to the anal angle, followed 

 by a deep brown line of equal width, at the base of the purplish-grey fringes ; within 

 the apical margin a space above the anal angle is much sprinkled with purplish-grey 

 scales. Hindwings ochreous, shaded with purplish-grey along the outer margin and 

 near the abdominal angle; fringes pale ochreous. Hind tibijB with large tufts of 

 mixed iridescent purplish and ochreous scales, erect above the first pair of spurs ; the 

 tarsal joints and spurs ochreous smeared with purple. 



Expanse of wings 27 mms. 



Ceylon. 



Genus TIPASA. 



Tipnsa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxix. p. 804 (1864). 



" j\Iale. Wings rather narrow ; friuge long : forewings acute ; costa and 

 exterior border nearly straight, the latter moderately oblique. Body hardly stout ; 

 proboscis moderately long ; palpi long, second joint porrect, densely fringed, much 

 longer than the breadth of the head, third joint vertical, smooth, setiform, slightly 

 curved, nearly as long as second ; anteuuEe stout, as long as the forewings, joints 

 subcyathiform, with acute fore angles ; abdomen extending much beyond the hind- 



