. PACHYLEPIS. 337 



2108. Cingalesa strigicosta, Ilmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 100, pi. 162, 

 fig. 14. 



$ . Head and collar black ; thorax yellowish white ; abdomen 

 fuscous. Fore wing ochreous ; costa black, with some black and 

 white strigae on it ; subbasal and antemedial lines represented by a 



Fig. 180. Cingalesa strigicosta, 



few black scales ; the postmedial black line indistinct and excurved 

 round the traces of a brownish reniform ; outer margin and cilia 

 black, expanding into a patch below the apex. Hind wing and 

 underside fuscous black, the latter with cell-spot and postmedial 

 line to hind wing. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus PACHYLEPIS. 



Paohylepis, Feld. Reis. Nov., ErU. pis. 75-107, p. 7 (1864). 



Type, P. dilectissima, Wlk. 



Range. S. India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, short, smoothly scaled, and not reaching vertex 

 of head ; antennae simple, somewhat thickened in the male ; thorax 

 and abdomen without tufts. Fore wing with the cilia non-cren- 

 ulate ; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and 

 (>, 7 from angles of cell. 



2109. Pachylepis dilectissima, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1751. 



Pachylepis limacodina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 83, fig. 12. 



Head and thorax bright ferruginous, the vertex of head, collar, 

 and metathorax with sulphur-yellow patches ; abdomen black 

 with narrow white rings, and the anal tuft white. Fore wing 



Fig. 181. Pachylepis dilectissima, tf. |. 



ferruginous with a yellow patch ; a series of costal specks : a 

 medial series of spots consisting of a large spot on the costa, two 

 towards inner margin, and two small spots at middle ; a series of 

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