APPENDIX. 555 



transverse medial and discal denticulated difBiiscd blackish line, the outer borders 

 of which, and the inner area, being yellow-, witli a whitii^h elongated spot below the 

 end of the cell; marginal spots blackish. Cilia blackish with a pale inner lino. 

 Body, palpi, and legs paler. 



Eypanse 6 t'u inch, ? 1 ra inch. 



Ceylon. 



From Mr. F. j\I. Mackwood's Collection. 



Genus HERCULIA. 



CLep. (if Ci-} loll, iii. p. 2G1.)' 



HERCULIA BILINEATA (Platk 21-., Fig. 11). 



Dark cinereous-red. Both wings crossed by an excurved antemcdial, and a 

 straight postmedial pale ochreous line. Cilia with a pale ochreous mner line. 

 Expanse ^ inch. 

 Ceylon. 

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



Genus AGATHODES. 

 Arjathodes, Guenee, Dolt, et Pyralites, p. 207 (I80I); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. 



p. 377 (1859). 

 Stemirrjes, Lederer, Wien, Ent. Monats. vii. p. 416 (1863). 



Forewing long, narrow, lanceolate ; apex acute, exterior margin oblique ; cell 

 nearly three-fifths the length ; first subcostal at fully one-third before end of cell, 

 second from angle very close to end, trifid, fifth from the end; discocellular slightly 

 concave, radials from close to each end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower 

 at one-fourth : hindwiug rather long, triangular, apex rounded ; cell nearly half the 

 length ; two subcostals at a short distance beyond end of cell, base of first joined 

 to the costal; discocellular outwardly-concave, radial from lower end; two upper 

 medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth. Body stout ; abdomen long, lanceolate ; 

 labial palpi robust, short, curved upward to vertex, laterally broad and compressed, 

 pilose, apex minute ; maxillary palpi slender, pilose at tip ; proboscis stout, squamous 

 above ; antennae simple, long ; legs smooth, long, spurs very long and slender, 

 {A. ostentalis.) 



AGATHODES OSTENTALIS (Plate 215, Fig 10). 

 Perinephela ostentalis, Hiibuer, Geyer, Ziitr. Saram. Exot. ScLmett, pt. v. p. 11. Fig. S33-4 



(1837). 

 Aijathodes ostentalis, Gueuee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 208 (1854) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. JI. 



xvii. p. 378 (1859). 



Stemirges ostentalis, LeJerer, Pjral. p. 417 (1863). 



(.') Phala:na dentalis Fabrtcius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1. p. 241. 



Forewing olivaceous ochreous-yellow ; costal edge and a slender mai'ginalhne 



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