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brown ; thorax white tinged with ochreous and irrorated with a few black 

 scales ; tibise and tarsi brown ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with 

 ochreous and irrorated with a few dark scales except at base. Fore wing 

 white tinged with ochreous and irrorated with black scales, the terminal 

 area tinged with rufous ; antemedial line brown, double on inner area,, 

 oblique towards costa, then waved, angled outwards at vein 1 ; a round 

 black discoidal spot ; postmedial line brown, excurved and minutely waved 

 to vein 2, angled inwards in submedian fold to near antemedial line and 

 outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line brown, diffused, oblique from costa 

 to vein 7, incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a series of small black 

 spots before termen ; cilia ochreous with a series of fuscous points. Hind- 

 wing whitish suffused with ochreous yellow especially on terminal area ; 

 the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown,, 

 a small discoidal spot. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Puttalam. Exp. -36 mill. 



2058. Elydna ochbacea. 



2057. Elydna transversa. 



Genus Andkoxymnia. Type. 



Androlymnia, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ix., p. 179 



(1910) . . . . . . . . . . emargmata . 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to' 

 vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth, with 

 large tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male somewhat 

 laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- 

 thorax with ridge-like crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; tibite 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only, 

 Forewing typically with the apex produced and acute, the termen excised 

 below apex and excurved at middle, the inner margin with antemedial lobe 

 and scale tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle : 

 9 from ]0 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing 

 with veins S'-l from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from first below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6-7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



2098. Androlymnia emarginata. 



Genus Nicara. Type- 



Nikara, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 126 (1882) . . . . castanea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, the 2nd joint broadly 

 scaled, the 3rd minute ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennee of male 

 minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests. Forewing rather short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen 

 obliquely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 



