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Expanse tV incli. 



Ceylon. " Punduloya." 



From Mr. E. E. Greeu's Collection. 



Genus HEMONIA. 

 Hemonia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het B. M. xxviii. p. 425 (1863). 

 " Male and female. Wings rather broad : forewings much rounded at the tips ; 

 costa and exterior broader very convex, the former dilated ; subcostal vein emitting 

 six oblique well-defined veinlets to the costa ; two inferior veins. Body stout, 

 smooth ; proboscis short ; palpi slender, smooth, porrect, extending very little beyond 

 the head ; third joint linear, as long as the second ; antennae slightly pectinated in 

 the male, minutely setulose in the female ; thorax squamous, tegute short ; abdomen 

 not extending beyond hindwings ; legs smooth, rather short and stout ; hind tibiiii 

 with four long spurs." 



HEMONIA ORBIFERANA (Plate 211, Fig. 6, q ). 

 Hemonia orhiferana, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 426 (1863). 

 Pitane rutundata, Snellin, Tijtl. Voor. Ent. 1879, p. 92, pi. 10, f. 6. 



" Male and female. Purphsh-grey : forewings with a brown diffuse zigzag interior 

 line, which is indistinct in the female and nearly obsolete in the male ; a reddish 

 black-marked dot in the exterior disc ; a black diffuse curved submarginal line ; a 

 chalybeous tinge between this line and the exterior border. Hindwings, and abdomen 

 yellowish-white in the male, whitish-cinereous in the female." 



Expanse A to to inch. 



Ceylon. 



Family ARCTIIDJE. 



Genus ATTATHA. 



Attatha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S78, p. 847. 

 " Forewing elongated, narrow ; costa straight, apex bluntly angular, exterior 

 margin oblique, angle convex ; posterior margin convex at the base. Hindwing oval, 

 exterior margin very convex. Venation similar to that of Eitplagia Hera. Body 

 elongated, abdomen extending beyond hindwings ; antennte slender, minutely setose ; 

 legs long, femora and tibiae slightly pilose ; palpi long, slender, porrect." 



ATTATHA REGALIS (Plate 212, Fig. 4). 



Hypcrcompa regalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 575, pi. 33, fig. 7, cJ. 

 Attatha regalis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 848. 



Forewing ochreous-white, tinged with ochreous-red at the posterior angle ; wirh 

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