MIGOPLASTIS. — PARAPLASTIS. 



507 



C0X8D with black points ; lcp:s striped with fuscous ; abdomen 

 strongly tinged with orange-yellow, a dorsal scries of black bands 

 and lateral and sublateral series of points. Fore wing very slightly 

 tinged with fuscous ; two black points afc base. Hind wing and 

 iinderside of fore wing strongly tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya (ffreeu), 1 ci" , 2 $ type. Exp., 6 50, 

 2 52 millim. 



. Sect. II. {Migoplastis). Hind wing of male with the termen not excised ; 

 antennre with the branches long. 



2125. Migoplastis correcta. 



Ih/psn correcta. Wlk. xxxi. 217(18G4); Ilaipsn. Moths Inch ii. p. 44 ; 



"Kirby, Cat. Ifet. p. 303. 

 Migcplastis ceylonica, Feld. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 285 (1868); 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 54, pi. 100. f. 5. 



Fig. 227. — Migoplastis correcta, (^ . 



Head and thorax brown ; palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints 

 blackish ; vertex of head, tegulaj, shoulders, pro- meso- and meta- 

 thorax, pectus and fore coxas with black points ; abdomen orange, 

 with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black points, the ventral 

 surface tinged with brown. Fore wing brown, with obscure paler 

 band across and beyond end of cell from costa to vein 1, slightly 

 angled at median nervure, then oblique. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 2 S, 2 $, type. Exp. 52 

 millim. 



Genus PARAPLASTIS, nov. 



Type, P. hampsoni. 



Probopcis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaeliing vertex of 

 licad, the 3rd somewhat porrect ; frons with slight tult of liair ; nutenn;c 

 bipectinate with moderate branches in both sexes; tibiir witli the spurs sliort. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; (>, 7 stalked ; 

 8 from middle of cell ; male with the termen strongly excised towards tornus, 

 the inner margin folded over below, the terminal area between venis G and 1 

 on iipperside clothed with rough scales. 



21 20. Paraplastis hampsoni. 



Miffoplaatis hampsoni, Swinh. 1'. Z. S. 1889, p. 402, pi. 43. f. 2 ; Ilmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 44 ; Kirby, Cat. IJet. p. 393. 



cJ . Brown; palpi black towards tips; frons, vertex of head, tegulne, 

 shoulders, pro- meso- and mctathorax, })cctus and fore eoxtc with 



