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alternating white and blackish streaks ; termen blood-red ; cilia 

 blood-red with a tine whitish line at base. Hind wing pale grey- 

 brown, the terminal area suffused and irrorated with blood-red ; 

 minutely waved blood-red subbasal, medial, postmedial, and 

 Bubterminal lines; a quadrate semihyaline subapical spot with 

 slight points above and below it; cilia blood-red with a tine pale 

 line at base ; the underside pale brownish with sinuous medial and 

 postmedial dark lines. 



Hah. Ceylon (Nietner), 1 J type. Exp. 14 millim. 



Genus EUBLEMMA. 



Type. 



Eublemma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256 (1S27) max 



Porphyrinia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256 (1827) purpuri 



Eromene, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256 (1827) i 



Trothisa, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256 (1827) noctualis. 



Ecthetis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 257 (1827) J 



Calymma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 281 (1827) communimaa 



Hremerosia, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. 3Ieth. p. 163 (1840) communimac 



Microphisa, Boisd. Gen. i Ind. Meth. p. 170 (1810) arcuinna. 



Micro,, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 224 (1841); nee 



Zttt. Dipt. 1840 purpurina. 



Leptosia, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 225 (1841) velox. 



Oratosct lis, Lhi^n. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. x. p. 231 (1S41) ... communimac* 



G/aphyra, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 232 (1841) ... paralleia. 



Microphysa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 233 (1841)... arcuinna. 



Thalpochares, Led. Xoct. Eur. p. 184 (1854) arcuinna. 



Silda, Wlk. xxvii. 131 (1863) truncata 



Autoha, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 57 (1864 ... < -sicolora. 



■<a, 'Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 191 (1864) ... comm 



Mestleta, Wlk. xxxiii. 829 (. 1865; abrupt a. 



Zalaca, Wlk. xxxiv. 1202(1865) antic 



Mataomera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1S86, p. 418] 



eta, Butl. Entom. xxv. p. 1S9 (1892) flammicin 



Eublemmoides, Betb.-Baker, Not. Zool. xiii. p. 212 



(1906) dinava. 



Antlwphila, Hiibn. Tent, ined., nee 111. Hym. 1804, & 



Triet. Lep. 1826 purpurina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about middle of frons or to vertex of bead and rather slightly scaled, 

 3rd short or moderate : frons smooth ; eyes large, round : antennae of male 

 ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibia? 

 typically slightly fringed with hair, sometimes strongly; abdomen without 

 crests. Fore wing typically with the apex rounded, the termen evenly cur 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of eell or •'•. -1 rarelj stalk 

 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9. 10 stalked ; 11 from cell; 

 retinaculum, slight bar-shaped, covered by a tuft of hair. Hind wing with 

 the cell from one-third to one-half length of wing; veins 3, 4 fr 

 cell or stalked : 5 nearly fully developed from below middle . tlulars ; 



6, 7 from upper angle; S ana?tomosing with the cell near ba.>e only or to 

 towards middle. 



Sect. I. Both wings with the termen angled at veins 6 and 4 ; hind wing with 

 the cell about one-third length of wing and veins 3, 4 shortly stalked. 



\ Doth wings with the termen acutely angled at veins 6 and 4. then 

 crenulate to tornus. 



