550 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



with long lax hairs, those of the hindlegs extending nearly to tip of the tarsi ; hind 

 tarsi also hairy. 



FELINIA SPISSA (Plate 214, Fig. 4 ?). 



Felinia spissa, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 322 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. PIcf. B. M. xiv. p. 1514. 



Briarda decens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1098 (1857). 



Cinereous. Forewing with numerous brown-speckled transverse lunular striga3, 

 a broad dilated transverse dark-brown subbasal band with acutely-defined zigzag 

 outer edge, an irregular zigzag discal line, and a triangularly-curved costal patch ; a 

 more or less defined brown fascia also crossing the middle ; marginal points and 

 denticulated line, brown : hindwing with a dusky-brown submarginal fascia, and 

 (lenticidated mai^ginal line. Thorax brown-speckled ; collar dark brown ; side of 

 ])alpi, and basal band on forelegs blackish. 



Expanse Itu inch. 



Ceylon. (Kandy, July). From Mr. F. M. Mackwood's Collection. 



Genus HOMOPTERA. 



(Lep. of Ceylon, iii. p. 97.) 



HOMOPTERA CATENATA (Plate 21 1, Fig. 1). 



Pale brownish-ochreous. Forewing crossed by a slender undulated black sub- 

 basal line and a discal line, beyond w'hich is a broad blackish dilated upper-discal 

 band, bordered by a contiguous ochreous-brown wavy diffused line ; an ochreous- 

 brown band before the basal line, and two diffused wavy lines crossing the middle, 

 embracing a pale reniform mark at end of the cell ; costal ends oi the lines dilated and 

 blacker ; a narrow black chain-like border along the exterior margin : hindwing with 

 slender black undulated discal line, diffused ochreous-brown wavy medial and sub- 

 marginal line, and chain-like marginal border. Thorax with a blackish tuft at the 

 base ; palpi at the side, and bands on forelegs black. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



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



Family HYPOGRAMMIDiE. 



SELEPA STRIGIFERA. 



Selepa strigifera (Lep. of Ceyloiij iii. p. 103). 



Figure 4 on Plate 158 represents a variety of the female of this species. 



Genus PLOTHEIA (Lep. of Ceylon, iii. p. 105). 

 NoiE. — It is probable that the Figures 5 to 1 2 on Plate 157 represent male and 



