138 Mtt. W. V. KlllBY ON THE 



*tClXIUS STIGMA. 



Cixius stigma, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 105 (1863). 



Nura Ellia and Pataunas {Motschulshy) ; Puudaloya {Green). 



An unusually large species. 



Beixia subfasciata.. 



Brixia subfasciata, Stal, Berl, ent. Zeitschr. iii. p. 320 (1859). 



Described from Ceylon. 



*tBEixiA TOETRiciFORMis, sp. n. (Plate V. fig. 12.) 



Long. Corp. 4| lin. ; exp. tegin. 12 millim. 



Brown above, metanotum and base o£ abdomen paler ; thorax 

 tricarinate, the carinse on the pronotum and the inner edge of the 

 two contiguous interocular carinse pale yellowish white ; pronotum 

 and mesonotum edged behind with an oblique lateral stripe of 

 the same colour. Under surface yellowish white, the hinder part 

 of the four converging carinse on the face, a stripe on each side 

 within the two innermost, where they recede to meet the outer 

 ones, a stripe below each eye, and the antennae above, brown. 

 Tegmina yellowish, subhyaline, clouded with lighter or darker 

 brown ; nervures brown or yellow, set with long seta) ; costal area 

 subhyaline to beyond the middle, with four oblique light-brown 

 bars ; under the inner extremity of the second stands another 

 light-brown blotch, but from its outer extremity a continuous 

 wide curve runs outwards and inwards to the inner margin, 

 where it is darker ; it rests on the uppermost of two narrow 

 parallel blackish lines, which occupy the basal half of the inner 

 margin; within it two oblique blackish dashes rise, the outer- 

 most is followed by a short curved line beyond it parallel to the 

 curve, the innermost is surmounted by three long brown veins, 

 between the two lowermost of which is a brown dash. On the costa 

 the 4th transverse stripe is followed by a long subhyaline space, 

 the middle of which is interrupted by a brown patch, marked 

 on the outer side below with yellow ; beyond this the costa and 

 upper half of the hind margin are edged with brown, but a long 

 and a short black line first descend from this, followed near the 

 apex by a large brown blotch edged with whitish, narrow above 

 and broad below; beyond the tip the brown margin of the wing 

 becomes double, and then angulates inwards, and ceases in a 

 light brown shade covering the wing below the apical blotch. 

 Just above the hinder angle stands the head of a black blotch, 

 which curves to a point on the outer part of the inner margin. 



