162 PYEALID^. 



Opsibotys purpurascens. (Plate CLXXIl. fig. 14.) 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown, the last ■with each segment fringed with 

 yellow scales. Fore wing dark brown with a purplish tinge ; a lunule at end of cell and 

 waved postmedial line curved inwards below the end of the cell, both the lines indistinctly 

 outlined with ochreous, especially towards the inner margin; cilia fuscous, with a small patch 

 of scales ochreous at the base between each pair of nervules. Hind wing ochreous, suffused 

 with fuscous, especially towards the apex ; an indistinct dark spot at the end of the cell ; a 

 dark marginal line ; cilia fuscous, ochreous at base. 



Nearest to O. ihictalis, Hmpsn., from the Nilgiris. 



Rectothyris gratiosalis, TF/k. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 12.) 

 Samea gratiosalis, Wll: Cat. xvii. p. 357. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



^'ellow, suffused with bright purplish pink. Fore wing with an indistinct dark curved 

 antemedial line with a hyaline speck in the cell beyond it ; two medial hyaline spots, the 

 one in the cell transversely elongate, the spot below it round ; two postmedial hyaline spots, 

 the one below the costa bifid, the spot at middle of wing trifid. Hind wing with a double 

 subbasal pink line ; a large hyaline pink-edged medial spot extending from the costa to first 

 median nervule with dentate outer edge. Both wings with a marginal pink line, the cilia 

 yellow. 



Meroctena tullalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXXIL fig. 31.) 

 Botys tullalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii. p. 049. 



Expanse H inch. 



Bright yellow ; palpi brownish. Fore wing with indistinct waved subbasal and ante- 

 medial dark lines ; a medial line from median nervure to inner margin, with a black speck 

 above it in the cell ; an ovate ring-spot on discocellulars ; a dark line beyond the cell from 

 subcostal to lower median nervure ; a highly waved postmedial line, the area beyond it red- 

 brown. Hind wing with a dark lunule at end of cell; a medial line from first median 

 nervule to inner margin, sending a streak outwards to the indistinct waved outwardly oblique 

 postmedial line ; apical area red-brown. Cilia of both wings dark at base, pure white at tips. 



Cotachena histricalis, JFlk. (Plate CLXXIL fig. 5.) 



Botys histricalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii. p. G55. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale fulvous; palpi blackish; vertex of head aud basal 



