HILAYRITA. 



433 



curved line beginning from near end of elavus, before the trans- 

 verse line the disk is for some distance considerably reticulate ; 

 posterior tibiae bispinose. 



Differs from Melicharla principally by the shorter tegmiua and 

 by the subapical venation to same. 



2027. Hilavrita trimaculata, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale oehraceous, slightly here and there cretace- 

 ously tomentose ; tegmina pale tawny-yellow, finely greyishly 

 tomentose, with three large brown spots placed in somewhat 

 transverse series before middle, the uppermost near end of radial 

 area, the lowermost near end of elavus, and the central and larger 



Fig. 227. — Hilavrita trimaculata. 



spot a little nearer base tlian either of Lhe other two, between 

 the veins on costal and apical areas the colour is a HttJe darker, 

 and so are a number of speckles on basal disk and also the trans- 

 verse subapical lines ; wings very pale fuliginous with the veins 

 darker ; pronotum very coai'sely rugosely granulate ; radial vein to 

 tegmina sinuate and a little prominent, claval suture considerabl}- 

 impressed and the elavus n:ioderately obliquely raised and coarsely 

 granulose. 



Length excl. tegm. 5 ; exp. tegm. 9 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon (Gi-cen, Brit. Mus.). 



2028. Hilavrita fatua, 3Ielich. (Ormenis) Hu})i. Faun. Ceylon, p. 90 

 (1903). 



Head (including face), clypeus, and legs ochraceous ; pi-onotum 

 and mesonotum black, greyishly tomentose, their lateral areas 

 ochraceous; abdomen ochraceous, more or less transversely blackish 

 and greyishly tomentose ; tegmina bluish-black, thickly greyishl}^ 

 tomentose, the margins and claval suture pale ochraceous, with 

 faint indications of three darker black spots arranged as in preceding 

 species {R. trimaculata) ; wings pale greyish-violaceous, the veins 

 black ; the tegmina beneath are much less greyishly tomentose 

 and more uniformly bluish-black, the costal margin and claval 

 suture being very prominently ochraceous. 



Length excl. tegm. 5 ; exp. tegm. 10 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green, Brit. Mas.). 

 YOL. III. 2 r 



