62 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



downwards towards tlie margin : liindwing short, broad ; cell wide ; costal and sub- 

 costal joined to two-tMrds*lengtli of tbe cell ; two subcostal branches on a foot-stalk 

 one-tliird beyond the cell ; discocellular acutely bent in the middle ; two upper 

 medians from acute angle at end of the cell, second from close to end, first at nearly 

 one-half before the end ; submedian and internal straight. Body moderately slender; 

 palpi porrect, slender, laxly squamose ; legs short, thick, femora pilose beneath ; 

 antenuEe sparsely and finely bipectinated. {B. striata.) 



BARSINE CUNEONOTATUS (Plate 103, Fig. 10, $ ). 

 Ammatho cuneonotatus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. ^^rit. Mus. iii. p. 759 (1855). 

 Ochreous-red : forewing with a transverse basal, three medial, and an outer 

 series of vermillion streaks, the transverse intervening spaces and the veins fuliginous- 

 grey : hindwing pale reddish-cinereous. Body ochreous-red ; thorax with blackish 

 spots ; antennae, palpi, and legs red. 

 Expanse ItTt to liV inch. 



Genus LYCLENE. 



Cyllene* Walker, Catal. Lep. Het Brit. Mus. ii. p. 543 (1854). 

 Lyclene, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. L C. ii. p. 300 (1858). 



Forewing lengthened, narrow; cell extending two-tl}irds the wing; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-third before end of the cell, ascending to costal and anastomosed to it 

 for a short distance ; second at one-seventh before the end ; third trifid ; discocellular 

 inwardly oblique, radial from upper end; two upper medians from angles at end of 

 the cell, second at one-sixth and first at nearly one-half before end of the cell ; sub- 

 median curved downward: hindwing short; costal and subcostal veins united to 

 within one-tenth of end of the cell ; two subcostal branches on a foot-stalk one-fourth 

 beyond the cell ; discocellular bent inward below tbp middle ; three upper medians at 

 equal angles at end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end. Body small, tufted 

 in female ; palpi very slender, pori-ect ; antennge finely bipectinated ; legs sraooth. 



LYCLENE ARCUATA (Plate 103, Fig. 5). 



Forewing pale red ; with a small blackish spot at base of the cell, a spot on 

 costal border at one-fifth from the base, a transverse medial inwardly curved band 

 terminating above the submedian vein, a spot at end of the cell, a transverse discal 

 zigzag band, and very indistinct minute marginal dots : hindwing paler red. Body, 

 palpi, and legs pale red. 



Expanse f inch. 



Near to L. rubricosa (Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 30), from Bombay. 



Previously used for a genus of Coleopte.ra. 



