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alternating white and blackish streaks ; termen blood-red ; cilia 

 blood-red with a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing pale gvej- 

 brown, the terminal area suft'used and irrorated with blood-red ; 

 minutely waved blood-red subbasal, medial, postmedial, and 

 snbterminal lines ; a quadrate semihyaline subapicai spot with 

 slight points above and below it ; cilia blood-red with a tine pale 

 line at base ; the underside pale brownish with sinuous medial aud 

 postmedial dark lines. 



Hab. Ceylon (Nietner), 1 J type, ii'ay. 14 millim. 



Genus EUBLEMMA. 



Type. 



Eublemma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256 (1827) suava. 



Porphyrinia, Hiibn. Verz. \). 256 (1 827) purpurina. 



Eromene, Hiibn. Verz. p. 256 (1827) ostrina. 



Trothisa, H libn. Verz. p. 256 ( 1827) noctiMlis. 



Ecthetis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 257 (1827) p'lcra. 



Calymma, Hiibn. Verz. p. 281 (1827) coinmimimacula. 



H(Bmerosia, Boisd. Gren. & Ind. Meth. p. 163 (1840) communimacula. 



Microphisa, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 170 (1840) arcuinna. 



Micra, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 224 (1841) ; nee 



Zett. Dipt. 1840 picrpurina. 



Leptoda, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. s. p. 225 (1841) velox. 



Oratoscclis, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 231 (1841) ... communimacula. 



Glaphyra, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 232 (1841) ... parallela. 



Microphysa, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 233 (1841)... arcuiniia. 



Thalpochares, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 184 (1854) arcuinna. 



Silda, Wlk. xxvii. 131 (1863) truncatalis. 



Autoba, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 57 (1864) ... versicolora. 



Vescisa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 191 (1864) ... commoda. 



Mestleta, Wlk. xxxiii. 829 (186.5) abrupta. 



2a^aca, Wlk. xxxiv. 1202(1865) aniica.lis. 



Matmomera, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc 1886, p. 418] dubia. 



Ewmestleta, Butl. Entoni. xxv. p. 189 (1892) flammicincta. 



Eublemmoides, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 212 



(1906) dinava. 



Aiithophila, Hiibn. Tent, ined., nee 111. Hyni. 1804, & 



Triet. Lep. 1826 purpurina. 



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

 to about middle of frons or to vertex of head and rather slightly scaled, the 

 3rd short or moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna3 of male 

 ciliated : thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibite 

 typically slightly fringed with hair, sometimes strongly ; abdomen without 

 crests. Pore wing typically with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell or 3, 4 rarely stalked ; 

 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell; the 

 retmaculum, slight bar-shaped, covered by a tuft of hair. Hind wing with 

 the cell from one-third to one-half length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell or stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only or to 

 towards middle. 



Sect. I. Both wings with the termen angled at veins 6 and 4 ; hind wing with 

 the cell about one-third length of wing and veins 3, 4 shortlv stalked. 



A. Both wings with the termen acutely angled at veins 6 and 4, then 



crenulate lo tornus. 



