184 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



white costal marks, and having behind it a broad black oblique 

 streak, which extends to the cilia of the angle of the exterior 

 border ; reniform mark mostly ferruginous, variable as to shape, 

 bordered hindward with silvery white. Length of the body, 

 seven lines ; of the wings, eighteen lines " ( Walker.) 



FAMILY THERMESIID.E. 

 GENUS CAPNODES. 



Capnodes, Guenee, Spec. Ge*n. Lpid. Noct. iii. p. 374 

 (1852); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 1600 



The two most important genera of the Thermesiida are 

 Thermesia, Hiibner, and Capnodes, Guene*e, both widely- 

 distributed genera ; and several of the species of Thermesia, 

 are extremely variable, rendering their separation a matter of 

 considerable difficulty. 



CAPNODES FINIPALPIS. 



(Plate CXLV., Fig. 2.) 



Thermesia finipalpis, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xv. 



p. 1574, no. 23 (1858). 

 Capnodes maculicosta. Walker, id. xv. p. 1608 (1858); Moore, 



Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p. 211 (1885). 



Capnodes finipalpis, Hampson, 111. Lepid. Het. Brit. Mus. ix. 

 p. 116, pi. 166, figs, i, 8 (1893); id. Faun. Brit. Ind. 

 Moths, iii. p. 20, fig. 8 (1895). 

 This Moth is a native of Ceylon. 



The following is Walker's description of his Capnodes 

 maculicosta : 



" Male. ' Orange fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 cinereous, hoary on the inner side ; third joint linear, whitish 

 at the tip, somewhat shorter than the second. Abdomen 



