270 JfOCTTJIDiE. 



crests. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenlj' curved and 

 not crenulate ; vein 3 from well befoi-e angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 

 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle ; 

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



A. Fore wing with the costal edge white. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line straight albicosta. 



h. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely dentate ... undulata. 



B. Fore wing with the costal edge not white miilineata. 



5407. Pseudacidalia albicosta. 



Mthia albicosta, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 232 (1885) ; Hmpsn. Moths Tnd. 

 ii. p. 351. 



Head dark brown ; tborax and abdomen bright rufous, the 

 prothorax with white band ; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous, the costa white 

 leaving the costal edge rufous towards base ; antemedial line faint, 

 dark, curved; two blackish discoidal points : postmedial line dark 

 defined on outer side by pale rufous, oblique, straight, from below 

 costa to inner margin ; faint traces of a pale subterminal line 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black 



Fig. 78.— Pseudacidalia a/bicosfa, c?. \. 



points. Hind wing bright rufous ; a minute white point at lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side bj^ pale 

 rufous, straight ; faint traces of a pale curved subterminal line ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; the underside whitish tinged 

 with rufous, an indistinct diffused postmedial line and terminal 

 series of black points. 



Hub. Ceylon (Lewis), 1 5, Ohiya (Green), 1 c? , Dickoya 

 (Green), 1 d" , 1 $ type, Pundaloya (Greeti), 1 $. Ea^p. 30-34 

 millim. 



5408. Pseudacidalia undulata. (Plate CLVI. fig. 27.) 



Pseudacidalia undidata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 351 (1894). 



Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen red-brown ; the protliorax 

 with a white band ; legs fuscous brown ; pectus and ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing red- 

 brown ; a white fascia just below costa defined below by deep red 

 and leaving the costal edge red-brown, the white broken up by red 



