538 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



a prominent black elongated spot at the base, a fusiform streak along middle of the 

 posterior margin, an outwardly-oblique tapering band from middle of the costi, and 

 another similar band from before the apex ; between the two latter is a parallel 

 slender brown line with a zigzag lower end ; each band terminates before the posterior 

 angle, where there is a black spot, three others along the exterior margin, and a 

 black marginal line above to the apex : hindwing scarlet, with a marginal row of 

 small black spots and a larger anal spot. Thorax and top of head ochreous-white, 

 with a black collar or band across the middle and a triangular spot at the base ; abdomen 

 ochreous-yellow ; palpi and legs red ; front of head, tip of palpi, fore and middle legs 

 above black. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Ceylon. Collected by Mr. F. M. Mackwood. 



Family LIPARIDiE. 



Genus DASYCHIRA (Lep. of Ceylon, ii. p. 97). 

 DASYCHIRA PUDICA (Plate 211, Fig. 5, ? ). 

 Female. White. Forewing very sparsely sprinkled with minute brown scales ; 

 crossed by an obsolescent subbasal, antemedial, and a postmedial brown-scaled 

 sinuous line, the costal ends of which are slightly dilated ; marginal sinuous line 

 slender. Palpi above, and short bands on legs brown. 

 Expanse 5 1^ inch. 

 Ceylon. "Peradeniya; K^v'A'' [Mackioood). 



Family DREPANULID^. 



(Lep. of Ceylon, ii. p. 118.) 



Genus PROBLEPSIS. 



Ca/o/)(cra,*Fnval(lsky, Magyar Term. Tars. Evkony.-C/d/i;-/*. Un/jirischen Natiir. Gesell.) 1. p. 183 



(184.5) ; H. Schfeff. Samm. Eur. Schmett. 8uppl. ii. p. 97 (1845). 

 Prohlepsis, Lederer, Verh. Zool. Bot. Vereins Wein. ii. pp. 75 et 114 (1853). 

 Argijris, Gueaee, Phal. ii. p. 12 (1857); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 806 (1861). 



Forewing rather long, triangular ; cell half the length : first subcostal at nearly 

 half before end of cell, second at one-fourth, quadrifid, slightly touching the first 

 near its base ; sixth from end of cell ; discocellular bent near upper end, radial from 

 the angle; middle median close to end, lower at one-third : hindwing short, exterior 

 marp-in very convex, slightly dentated; cell half the length ; first subcostal near the 



* Previously used by Gueriu for a genus of Diptera. 



