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THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



extending balf beyond the head; antennas very minntely pnbescent ; legs slender, 

 middle tibia with a pair, and hind tibia with two pairs of long slender unequal spurs. 



NAROSODES PUNCTANA (Plate 211, Fig. 7). 

 Tospitis pnnctciiia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxviii. p. 431 (1863). 



Wbitish-ochreous. Forewing with traces of five or more brownish-ochreoiis 

 curved wavy fascias crossing the middle and disc ; a minute black dot at end of the 

 costal and subcostal veins ; two indistinct dots also at end of the cell and one above 

 middle of the submedian. Palpi and fore tibiae above brown. 



Expanse ttt inch. 



Ceylon. " Dickoya." 



From Mr. E. E. Green's Collection. 



Genus HOMOPSYCHE. 



Homops)jche, Butler, Annals uud Mag. IS-at. Hii^t. olh scr. x. p. 226 (1&82). 



Male. Wings small, semidiaphanous, clothed with short delicate hairy scales. 

 Forewing elongated; costa much arched, with a lax well-developed fringe; apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin very slightly oblique, hardly convex, posterior margin fringed ; 

 cell fully two-thirds the length, costal vein short ; first subcostal at one-third before 

 end of cell, second at one-sixth, third bifid ; discocellular convex, bent at equal 

 distances from ends, radials from the angles ; middle median at one-sixth, lower at 

 fully two- fifths ; submedian straight : hindwiug triangular, apex obtuse, exterior 

 margin very oblique, slightly convex ; cell fully two-thirds the length, subcostal 

 straight, bifid at half length beyond the cell; discocellular bent outward above 

 middle, and inward below the middle, radial from lower angle ; middle median at 

 one-sixth, lower at half ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body short, slightly 

 clothed with fine hairy scales ; palpi minute ; proboscis long ; antennte with the 

 basal third thick and finely pilose, setaceous to the tip, entirely setaceous in the 

 female ; legs moderately long ; tibisB slightly pilose ; middle tibite with a pair of 

 short spurs, hind tibias with two pairs of slender spurs. 

 Type, H. nudarioides. 



HOMOPSYCHE NYMPHA (Plate 211, Fig. 11, S)- 

 Male. Cinereous-white. Wings semidiaphanous, clothed with short delicate 

 hairy scales. Forewing crossed by an indistinct subbasal, antemedial, and a sub- 

 marginal ochreous-yellow zigzag line, the latter much diffused, followed by a row of 

 marginal spots ; a roimded spot in middle of the cell more brownish-ochreous : hind- 

 wing, body, antenncB, and legs cinereous-white. 



