56 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLOlf. 



upper median brandies at half length beyond end of tlie cell : liindwing long, apex 

 produced ; two branches of subcostal vein at one-third beyond the cell, and two 

 median branches at two-thirds beyond. Palpi ascending, pilose beneath. 



BRUNIA ANTICA (Plate 101, Fig. 3). 

 Liiliosia antica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 505 (1854). 

 Brunia antica, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1878, p. 15, pi. 1, fig. 9. 



Forewing pale purplish-grey, darkest at the base ; costal border yellow : hind- 

 wing pale straw -yellow. Body yellow ; tegul^ and middle of thorax, front of head, 

 tip of palpi, legs above, and antennae purplish-grey. 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Genus KATHA. 

 Katha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 16. 

 Wings clothed with stout compact imbricated scales. Male : forewing long, 

 very naiTOw ; costa nearly straight, apex rounded ; exterior margin slightly oblique ; 

 posterior margin recurved, convex near the base ; slightly folded longitudinally below 

 the median vein ; cell long, narrow ; discocellular bent outward at upper end and 

 inward at lower end ; first branch of subcostal vein at some distance before end of 

 the cell, short, oblique, and anastomosed to costal ; second short, arising beyond end 

 of the cell ; third trifurcate, its lowest branch at equal distance between second and 

 fourth ; radial starting from upper angle of discocellular ; two upper branches of 

 median vein at half distance from end of the cell ; submedian recurved : hindwing 

 long, broad; two subcostal branches at one-third from cell; discocellular slightly 

 bent inward ; two median branches at one-half distance from the cell and wide apart. 

 Palpi rather short, pilose at base, porrect. Antennee minutely pectinated. Legs 

 long, rather stout. Body long, extending beyond hindwing. {K. nigrifrons.) 



KATHA BREVIPEKNIS (Plate 101, Fig. 4). 

 Lithosia hrevipennis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 509 (1,854). 



Forewing pale mealy brownish- ochreous : hindwing pale yellow. Body brownish- 

 ochreous ; front of head, legs, and abdomen above greyish-ochreous ; palpi with 

 blackish tip. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus CAPISSA, 



Cajyissa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 19. 



Eorewing long, narrow, costa arched before the apex, exterior margin oblique 



and convex, hind margin slightly convex near the base. Male with a longitudinal 



fold below the cell, where the scales are raised and rough ; cell short, narrow ; 



