134 EPIPLEMID^E. 



an indistinct antemedial ferruginous curved line, with a white 

 patch at inner margin ; a more prominent postmedial line ; a 

 submarginal rufous and black line. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



3069. Dirades pmnaria, Moore, Lej). Ceyl iii, p. 400; C. fy S r 

 no. 3066. 



$ . Dark purplish red-brown. Fore wing with large dark 

 patches on the costa and inner margin, just beyond the middle, 

 with ferruginous edges ; a narrow nearly regular dark marginal 

 band. Hind wing with a similar band from veins 2 to 7; the 

 outer margin produced to a point at veins 7 and 4, and slightly 

 at 6. Underside dark. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus GATHYNIA. 

 Gathynia, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1639 (1862). 



Type, O. miraria, Wlk. 



Range. Kangra ; Sikhim ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. 



Palpi slender and obliquely porrect ; antennaB thickened and 

 flattened in both sexes. Fore wing broad, the outer margin 

 evenly rounded; vein 5 from just above the middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6 and 7 from angle of cell or on a short stalk ; 8 and 9 

 stalked; 10 and 11 stalked. Hind wing with the costa excised 

 and bearing tufts of hair near the base and apex ; outer margin 

 produced to points at veins 6 and 4 ; vein 5 from the middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6 and 7 from angle of cell ; 8 curved. Male with 

 a fold on inner area containing a tuft of long hair, the internal 

 veins being distorted. 



The species repose in the form of a cross, with the fore wings 

 rolled up at right angles to the body, the hind wings folded close 

 against the body. 



3070. Gathynia miraria, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1639 ; C. fy S. no. 3072 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 187, fig. 4. 



Pale fuscous brown ; fore wing 

 with an ochreous subapical patch 

 outwardly denned by a dark line. 

 Hind wing with the folds on 

 inner area and down the middle 

 pale, so that the markings are 

 -p. 7 confined to the costal and sub- 



Gathynia miraria, rf. {. median areas, which are crossed 



by an indistinct antemedial line 



and well-defined brown, black, and pale postmedial line ; a lunu- 

 late marginal line. 



/A//'. Sikhim; Bombay; Nilgiris; Ceylon. Exp., rf 28, $ 30 

 mi 111 in. 



