346 Mr. F. Moore on Ceylon Lepidoptera. 



terior angle, throwing off an upper branch : hind wing short, 

 broad, rounded at apex and anal angle ; cell broad; subcostal 

 vein arched at the base, extending to apex ; upper discocellu- 

 lar straight and erect, lower bent inward at its middle, and 

 emitting a discoidal veinlet which extends to base of the cell ; 

 median vein three-branched ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body slender, densely pilose, the hairs standing out 

 in lateral tufts ; abdomen extending beyond hind wings. 

 Antenna3 deeply bipectinated. Legs slender. 



Chalia DouhJedayi (type). 

 Oiketicus Douhleduyi, Westwood, P.Z.S. 1854, p. 23.5, pi. 34. f. 4. 

 Hob. Ceylon. 



Manatha, n. g. 



Wings short, broad, covered with brown scales : fore 

 wing trigonal ; costal vein extending to beyond half of wing ; 

 subcostal vein five-branched, first and second branches arising 

 from before end of cell, third and fiftli at end of the cell, fourth 

 from below third at half its length, and terminating at the 

 apex ; cell broad and cleft at its end ; discocellulars long, upper . 

 bent inward at near its middle, and emitting from its end a 

 discoidal vein within the cell, which extends towards its base 

 and there throws off a lower short branch ; lower discocellular 

 very oblique ; one radial starting from angle of upper disco- 

 cellular ; median vein four-branched, two lower branches from 

 before end of the cell, the upper branch short and arising from 

 the third, beyond end of the cell ; submedian vein bent up- 

 ward near base of the cell, sending forth a lower branch 

 from half its length, which branch is also bent hindward, and 

 has a second lower parallel branch or internal veinlet, to which 

 it is joined at the angle by a short cross braucli : hind wing 

 slightly pointed at the apex, exterior margin rounded ; costal 

 and subcostal veins running parallel to below apex, and joined 

 together by a short cross oblique branch before end of the 

 cell ; cell broad, short at its upper and long at its lower end ; 

 upper discocellular bent outward at its middle, from the angle 

 of which starts the radial ; lower discocellular long and parallel 

 to end of the median ; median vein four-branched, disposed as 

 in fore wing ; a sti'aight submedian and two internal veins. 

 Thorax rather broad, clothed with closely adprcssed hairs. 

 Abdomen attenuated, extending beyond hind wmg. Antennse 

 short, bipectinated. Tibiaj clothed with long hair, tarsi nearlv 

 naked. 



Type Manatha allipes. 



