270 rULGORID^\ 



A. Tegmina tuitJi the veins minutely setosehj maculate. 



1810. Brixia nubila, Walk. (Cixius) List Horn. Suppl p. 80 (1858) ; 



6'^5/(Bnxia), Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 487; Eirby iC\-d\x&) , 

 J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 137, t. v, f. 13 (1891) ; Melich. 

 (Brixia) Hoin. Faun. Ceylon, p. 33 (1903). 

 Brixia subfasciata, Stdl, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. iii, p. 320 (1859). 



Kirbv has giv^en such a minute description of this species that 

 I reproduce it here : — 



" Brown ; orbits, some lines on the thorax, and the incisions of 

 the abdomen (narrowly) whitish; leo;s testaceous; tegmina light 

 brown, varied with black and subhyaline markings ; all the 

 nervures white and marked with single or double rows of black 

 spots, from each of which proceeds a single hair ; at the extremity 

 of each uervure, just before the margin, which is whitish, the 

 extreme outer edge being brown, stands a distinct white spot ; 

 the principal subhyahue or whitish markings are firstly two large 

 and one small space on the costa separated by darker spaces, and 

 followed by a large stigma-like mark, which is light brown edged 

 with pale at each extremity, the first of these, which sometimes 

 coalesces with the second after crossing the first nervure, runs 

 down in a point half across the tegmen ; below and beyond its 

 lower part stand some black markings, and there is another on the 

 inner margin, surrounded with a clear space ; beyond this is an 

 oblique clear spot rather below the middle of the tegmen, and a 

 smaller one near the inner margin, separated by a black spot ; 

 beyond the third vitreous spot on the costa a blackish line, 

 forming a slight curve towards the base, runs nearly to the inner 

 margin, it is bordered on the outer concavity with pale ; beyond 

 this is a conspicuous oblique black spot on the inner margin, and 

 two small black spots (sometimes connected into a short, slightly 

 zigzag line) about the middle of the tegmen ; between the stig- 

 moidal spot and the tip of the tegmina is a large dusky space, 

 with a white dot near its upper edge, and its inner side Jiarrowly 

 edged with pale ; beyond it is a white band, more or less divided 

 in two by an oblique spot opposite the hind margin, but not quite 

 eixtendiug either to the costa or the inner margin ; wings iridescent 

 subhyaline, with brown nervures." 



Length excl. te;j;m. 4 to 4| ; exp. tegm. 10 to 12 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya ; Bogawantalawa {Green). 



1811. Brixia meander. Walk. (Cixius) List Horn, ii, p. 319 (1851); 



8tal (Brixia), Of v. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 487 ; Atkins. J. A. S. 

 Beng. Iv, p. 34 (1886). 



Somewhat closely allied to the preceding species {B. nuhila) ; 

 tegmina with similar setose black dots to the veins ; tlie transverse 

 fasciate-like space crossing tegmen just before middle narrower 

 and more or less continuous to inner margin, more outwardly 

 oblique in direction, with its margins much more angularly 

 Avaved. 



