EURTBRACHyDIN.'E, 219 



towards tips more luteous with uumerous larger and smaller dull 

 black spots, rather irregularly tessellated, so that the basal third 

 appears less maculate, m hile in costal area there are four darker 

 and more prominent spots, beneath to three-fifths of length 

 more or less bone-yellow, the brown apical area suffused with 

 sanguineous ; posterior wings coloured as in tricolor, that is, with 

 a decided bow-shaped border of the sanguineous basal area, but 

 the brown apical area not blackish, but more umber-brown, caused 

 by the light red reticulation on a dark ground-colour : abdomen 

 piceous. spotted with sanguineous, the genital appendage rust- 

 colour. 



Length excl. tegm. 15 ; exp. tegm. 43 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon (Jide Gerstaeckei). 



I have not seen this species, and have given what seems to be 

 the salient points in Gerstaecker's description. 



In the ' lusecta Saundersiana ' (p. 37), Walker has desci-ibed 

 a species {Echetra semilutea) to which he has appended the 

 locality '• Hiudostan." This is a strange error, for not only is tlie 

 specimen labelled " Para," but in his description of the genus 

 which he foiuided for the reception of the species he wrote : 

 " This genus seems to replace in South America the Asiatic genus 

 Dichoptera,''^ 



Subfamily II. EURYBRACHYDINiE. 



Eurybrachydida, StFd, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 129 (1866). 

 Eurybrachydina, «SYf?/, O/o. Vet.-Ali. Fork. 1870, p. 753. 

 Eurybrachidre, Melich. (part.) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 66 (1903). 



Anal area of wings very rarely reticulate, if so, the clypeus 

 convex without lateral ridges ; posterior tibiae without a mobile 

 spur at apex ; face broad, transverse, or almost equally long and 

 broad, angularly ampliated on each side ; anterior legs compressed, 

 more or less dilated. 



With many of the genera of this subfamily the specific differen- 

 tiation is to be chiefly found in the coloration, as is the case with 

 the Lepidoptera. The principal structural characters are detailed 

 in the generic diagnoses and are very constant, and therefore in 

 the specific descriptions ib serves no useful purpose to repeat 

 them . 



Synoims of Genera. 



A. Eyes spiuose beneath. 



a. Wings not or scarcely broader than 

 tegmina. 

 a. Face scarcely or only a little broader 

 than prouotum. 

 a . Tegmina normal, without an apical 

 filamentous appendage ; posterior 

 tibiaB with five spines Eurybeachys, p. 220. 



