554. THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. ' 



Family HERMINIIDiE. 



(Lep. of Ceylou, iii. p. 247.) 

 Genus AYITTA. 

 AviUa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xv. p. 1675 (1858). 

 AVITTA KTJFIFRONS (Plate 215, Fig. 2). 



Forewing dark purplish-brown ; with four transverse equidistant indistinct 

 blackish narrow fascife : liindwing dusky-brown ; cilia paler, edged with cinereous. 

 Thoras dark sepia-brown ; abdomen dusky-brown ; collar, head, palpi, and forelegs 

 above, ferruginous-red, edged with white ; middle and hindlegs, and tarsal bands 

 pale brown. 



Expanse Its inch. 



Ceylon. " Dickoya ; April " (3/rtrf-/coof?). 



Family PYRALIDiE. 



(Lep. of Ceylon, iii. p. 2(34.) 

 Genus TAMRACA. 

 Male. Forewing elongate, costa nearly straight, apex obtuse, exterior 

 margin oblique, slightly convex, posterior margin rounded towards the base ; 

 cell more than half the length, narrow; first subcostal about one-fifth, second 

 close to end of cell, third from the end, trifid ; discocellular slender, concave, 

 radials from upper and lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower 

 at one-third: hindwing moderately broad; exterior mai^gin convex; cell nearly 

 half the length ; subcostal free from the costal ; two subcostals from exti^eme end ; 

 discocellular bent above the middle, lower end long, very oblique ; radial from 

 very close to lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at fully one-third. 

 Body rather stout; labial palpi porrect, laxly scaled, second joint projecting half 

 beyond the head, third joint short ; maxillary palpi short, slender ; antennte 

 bipectinated to one-third the tip, the branches short and tipt with tufted cilice ; 

 legs rather short, stout ; tibice with short stout hairy scales, spurs stout. 

 Near to Cledeobia. 



TAMRACA TORRIDAIIS (Plate 215, Fig. 7, 8, cJ ? ). 



Ascqim torri.daUs, Lederer, Pyral. pp.342, 457, pi. 6, f. 15 (18G.3). 



Pyralis torridalis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 264. 

 Vcirnin incerta. Walker, Cutal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 829 (1865). 



Cupreous-red. Forewing with a transverse excurved medial, and a nearly 

 straight denticulated postmedial yellow-bordered diffused blackish line ; the inner 

 area between the lines and also the outer border somewhat yellow ; a lunular 

 spot at end of the cell, and slender marginal spots blackish : hindwing with a 



