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cinereous ; cilia purplish-red. Thorax purplish-reil ; ]ialpi and forelegs above blackish 

 cinereous; middle and hind legs paler. 



Expanse Ito inch. 



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



Family PLUSIIDJE. 



Genus ABROSTOLA. 

 (Lep. of Ceylon, iii. p. 68.) 



ABROSTOLA NUBILA (Plate 214, Fig. 5.) 



Forewing dark greyish-brown ; with a transverse dark purple-brown antemedial 

 and postmedial augulated duplex-line, the intermediate area being dark glossy purple- 

 brown, dai'kest below the cell; reniform mark black-edged; a very slender black 

 sinuous submarginal line shaded with purple-bi'own before its anterior end : hind wing 

 brown, palest at the base ; cilia cinereous-brown. Thorax, and legs clothed with 

 lax grey and purple-brown hairs ; abdomen brown, with grey and purple-brown dorsal 

 tufts ; tarsi with pale bands. 



Expanse l-i*o inch. 



Ceylon. " Dickoya " {Green). 



Family HOMOPTEEIDiE. 



(Lcp. of CV-yloii, iii. p. 90.) 



Genus FELINIA. 



Felinia, GiK-oee, Noct. iii. p. 322 (18.52) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1514 (1S58). 

 Forewing rather narrow, triangular, apex somewhat rounded, exterior margin 

 very oblique, denticulated ; cell narrow, half the length ; first subcostal fully one- 

 third before end of cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, very slightly touching the first 

 above base of the third ; fifth, from end of cell and slightly touching base of the third ; 

 discocellular concave, radials from upper end and close to lower end ; middle median 

 near end of cell, lower at two-fifths : hindwing broad, exterior margin convex, 

 denticulated ; cell one-third the length ; two subcostals from the end ; discocellular 

 concave, slender, radial from close to lower end ; two upper medians from end of 

 cell, lower about one-fifth. Body stout ; palpi ascending, curved, rather long, second 

 joint compactly pilose, third joint about half length of second, cylindrical, subspatu- 

 late ; antennjB long, whip-shape, minutely ciliated in front ; legs most densely clothed 



