APPENDIX. ^47 



Family ORTHOSIIDiE. 



(Lcp. of Ceylon, iii. p. .'3.3.) 



Genus ELYDNA. 



Elydna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het, B. M. xv. p. 171-2(1858). 



Forewing elongate, costa nearly straight, apex obtuse, exterior margin oblique, 

 slightly convex ; posterior margin very convex at the base ; cell fully half the length ; 

 first sub.'jostal at two-fifths before end of cell, second at one-eighth, bifid ; fourth from 

 end of cell, bifid ; fourth joined to third for a short distance from above the base of 

 fifth ; sixth also from end of cell ; discocellular slender, outwardly-obh.que, radial 

 from near lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at two-fifths ; sub- 

 median nearly straight : hindwing short, apex and exterior margin convex ; cell half 

 the length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular very slender, concave, bent 

 below the middle, radial from the angle ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower 

 at one-third. Thorax stout, spherical ; abdomen rather short ; palpi curved upward, 

 reaching to vertex, slender, almost smooth, third joint elongate, about one-third the 

 length of second; antenni-e simple: legs stout, squamous ; middle tibia3 clothed with 

 lax hairy scales ; middle and hind tibiae with very long spurs. 



Type, E. transversa. 



ELYDNA TEAPEZATA (Plate 214, Fig. 9). 



Lilacine-ochrtous. Forewing crossed by a slender brown outwardly-obhque 

 anteraedial line, an excurved medial line, and an angular discal line; a similar slender 

 line also entending from the middle line, at end of the cell, to the exterior margin : 

 hindwing semidiaphanous at the base. Tip of palpi, and forelegs above brown. 



Expanse 1 A inch. 



" Watteo-ama ; May." From Mr. F. M. Mackwood's Collection. 



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Family HADENIDiE. 



(Lep. of Ccylou, iii. p. 36.) 



Genus APPANA. 



Appana, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 355, Desc. Lep. Coil. Atk. p. 126 (.1882). 

 Forewing somewhat short, costa straight, apex slightly pointed, exterior margin 

 oblique, very slightly waved and convex ; first subcostal branch emitted from half 



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