184 Lloyd's natural history. 



white costal marks, and having behind it a broad black oblique 

 streak, which extends to the cilia of the angle of the exterior 

 border ; reniform mark mostly ferruginous, variable as to shape, 

 bordered hindward with silvery white. Length of the body, 

 seven lines ; of the wings, eighteen lines " ( Walker.) 



FAMILY THERMESIID^. 

 GENUS CAPNODES. 



Capnodes, Guen^e, Spec. Gen. L^pid. Noct. iii. p. 374 

 (1852) ; Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 1600 

 (1858). 

 The two most important genera of the ThermesiidcE are 

 Thermesia, Hiibner, and Capnodes, Guen^e, both widely- 

 distributed genera ; and several of the species of Thermesia, 

 are extremely variable, rendering their separation a matter of 

 considerable difficulty. 



CAPNODES FINIPALPIS. 



{Pla/e CXLV., Fig. 2.) 



Thermesia fitiipalpis, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xv. 



p. 1574, no. 23 (1858). 

 Capnodes viaculicosta. Walker, id. xv. p. 1608 (1858); Moore, 



Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 211 (1885). 

 Capnodes finipalpis, Hampson, 111. Lepid. Het. Brit. Mus. ix. 

 p. 116, pi. 166, figs. I, 8 (1893); id. Faun. Brit. Ind. 

 Moths, iii. p. 20, fig. 8 (1895). 

 This Moth is a native of Ceylon. 



The following is Walker's description of his Capnodes 

 maculicosta : — 



" Male. Orange fawn colour, cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 cinereous, hoary on the inner side ; third joint linear, whitish 

 at the tip, somewhat shorter than the second. Abdomen 



