PAEIAMBIA. — AUCKA. 6(il 



series of small black luiniles, those above and below discal fold 

 conjoined; cilia blackish with a tine pale line at base. Hind wing- 

 fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a dark line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, 

 traces of postmedial line and terminal series of striae. 



Eah. CEYLOjjf, Willawaya {Alston), 1 S type. Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus AUCHA. 



Type 



Aiicha, WIL siii. 1137 (1857) velatis. 



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

 head and smoothly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennse of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the prothorax witliout crest, the metathorax with lai-ge flattened 

 crest ; tibiiE smoothly scaled ; abdomen with flattened dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing with the apex rounded ; the termen evenly curved and 

 hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and b from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

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



A. Fore wing with white patches on medial area. 



a. Fore wing with white fascia below base of cell and 



patch on costa before postmedial line variegata. 



b. Fore wing without white fascia below base of cell or 



patch on costa before postmedial line flavomaculat": 



B. Fore wing without white patches on medial area. 



a. Hind wing reddish ochreous, the costal and terminal 



areas suS'used with brown. 



«'. Fore wing olive-brown tenehricosa . 



6' . Fore wing grey-brown tri'phceiioldrs, 



b. Hind wing with orange patch below and beyond end 



of cell. 

 «.'. Hind wing with the orange patch not bent upwards 



beyond end of cell vesta. 



b^. Hind wing with the orange patch bent upwards 

 beyond end of cell. 

 a^. Fore wing with the ante- postmedial and terminal 



areas strongly suffused with grey ncctcns. 



b"^. Fore wing uniform dark brown slightly suifused 



with gi-ey velans. 



c. Hind wing nearly uniform dart brown. 



a^. Fore wing with the' postmedial line oblique from 



below costa to inner margin villiana,. 



b^. Fore wing with postmedial line excurved from below 



costa to vein 4, then incurved oninor. 



3554. Aucha variegata. 



Acontia variegata, Oberth. Diag. Lep. Askold. p. 15 (1879) ; id. Et. Ent. 

 V. p. 81, pi. o. f. 7 (I83O) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203. 



■■ 5 . Head and thorax white slightly mixed with red-brown ; 

 palpi red-brown behind ; antennae red-brown ; tibiae and tarsi 

 slightly banded with brown ; abdomen yellow, with diffused brown 

 bands, the anal tuft tinged with rtrfous, the ventral surface whitish 



