APPEADIX. 545 



Expanse 4 inches. 



Ceylon. 



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



Genus APONA. 



^;)o»a, Walker, C.ital. Lep. Ilet. L. M. vii. p. 1702 (1856). 



Wings ample, rather broad ; costa of forewing convex towards the apex, which 

 is slightly acuminate in the male and falcate in the female. Body thick; thorax 

 clothed with dense long hairs ; palpi very short, thickly clothed with lax hairs ; 

 antenna; long, very broadly plumose to the tip in male, pectinated in the female ; 

 legs stout, densely clothed with long hairs ; hind tibiis with two moderately long 

 thick apical spurs. 



Tijjor, A. pallida. 



APONA SHEVAROYENSIS (Plate 213, Fio. 1, 2, cj ? )• 

 Ajmia Slieuaroi/ensis, Moore, Trans. Eat. Soc. 1884, p. 373. 



Dark cinnamon-brown, darkest along the exterior border; forewing crossed 

 by a darker brown sub-basal, medial, and a pale-centred duplex discal line ; the area 

 between the medial and discal line traversed by four sinuous hnes ; submarginal 

 border with a more or less indistinct zigzag-bordered glaucescent-grey fascia 

 liordering the discal line ; a small black spot at end of the cell : hindwing with 

 similar, but L ss distinct, discal lines and intermediate sinuous lines. Antennae dark 

 brown, shaft white; tarsi ochreous- white. 



Expanse, ^ 5, ? 5f inches. 



Ceylon. 



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



Tamily HEPIALIDiE. 



(Lep. of Ceylon, ii. p. 156.) 

 Genus HEPIALUS. 



Hepialus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 589 (1775) ; Cuvier, Tabl. Hist. Nat. p. 597 (1798) ; id. HLst. Nat. 



xiv. p. 174 (1805); Leach, Edin. Eac. ix. p. 131 (1815) ; Stephens, 111. Haust. ii. p. 4 (1828) ; 



Guenee, Walker. 

 Hepiolus, Ochsenheimer, Treitschke. 



HEPIALUS TAPEOBANUS (Plate 212, Fig. 6). 

 Forewing greyish purpUsh-brown ; base densely covered with darker brown 

 scales ; the outer area crossed by darker brown broken zigzag bands, followed by 

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