5^6 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



a marginal row of spots ; a white triangular spot in midille of tlie cell, and a small 

 black spot at the posterior angle : hindwing purplish-brown ; costal border, and the 

 cilia tinged with ochreous. Body, palpi, and legs purplish-brown ; base of abdomen 

 clothed with long ochreous hairs. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Ceylon. 



Taken at Wattegama, in March, by Mr. F. M. Mackwood. 



Family CYMATOPHORIDiE. 



Genus RISOBA. (Lep. of Ceylon, iii. p. 1). 



EISOBA BASALIS (Plate 214, Fig. 1). 

 liisoha liamlis, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, p. 91 (18S2). 



Male and female. Forewing pale brownish-ochreous, greyish along the costa and 

 below the apex; a whitish basal, oblique, black-edged baud, bordered outwardly by dark 

 brown ; disc crossed by an irregular inwardly-oblique black, sinuous, pale-bordered 

 line terminating hindward in white ; interior of the wing crossed by two indistinct 

 black lines and a sinuous fascia; apical patch dark brown and black, streaked with 

 whitish lips at costal end and below angle; a slight pale-boi*dered black lunular 

 marginal line : hindwing cinereous-white, with broad brown marginal band, and a 

 discal spot. Body cinereous-brown, white speckled ; legs brown above. 



Expanse, S lyo, ? Ixu inch. 



Ceylon. {Coll. Machivood). 



Family APAMEIDiE. 



Genus PERIGEA (Lep. of Ceylon iii. p. 28). 



PERIGEA DOLOROSA. 



Mfimestra dolorosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 667 (1865). 



Dark purple-brown. Forewing crossed by an indistinct subbasal, antemedial, 

 discal, and a sulimarginal ochreous-white bordered black denticulated line, a marginal 

 row of pale dots and cilial spots ; orbicular mark pale lined, reniform mark composed 

 of aglomerated ochreons-white spots : hindwing cinereous-white with broad brown 

 border ; a whitish-bordered darker marginal line ; cilia cinereous-white. Thorax 

 dark purplish-brown ; abdomen cinereous-brown ; palpi and legs blackish, speckled 

 with ochreous ; tarsi with ochreous bands. 



Expanse 1 Toin ch. 



"Kandy; July." From Mr. F. M. Mackwood's Collection. 



