66 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



half lengtli of the cell ; two subcostal branches on a foot-stalk one-half beyond the 

 cell; discocellular outwardly oblique; cell broad; three median branches, the upper 

 from angle above end of the cell, second from the end, the lower from one-third 

 before the end ; submedian and an internal vein slightly curved. Body short, thorax 

 rather stout, head very small ; palpi porrect, thick, laxly and coarsely squamose 

 beneath, long, projected three-fourths its length beyond the head ; antennse very 

 minutely bipectinated, basal joint thick and with a fascicle of long scales beneath ; 

 legs rather long, slender, smooth. {N. palUolalis = cucullatella). 



NOLA CINGALESA (Plate 104, Fig. 1). 



Forewing greyish-white ; a black triangular spot at base of the costa, a transverse 

 antemedial outwardly curved line thickening into a rounded spot in crossing the cell, 

 a blurred tridentate mark from the costa above end of the cell, a postmedial transverse 

 undulated line, and a submarginal zigzag less distinct fascia : hindwing greyish. 

 Body greyish; thorax white; second joint of palpi with a lateral black band; legs 

 with black bands above. 



Expanse ^ inch. 



Genus NEPITA. 



Pitane* Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 331 (1854). 

 Nepita, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 302 (1858-9). 



Wings longer and narrower than in Adites. Venation similar, except that in 

 the forewing the second median branch is one-eighth and the first (or lower) is less 

 than one-third before end of the cell. Palpi short, laxly pilose, not extending to 

 front of the head ; antennge in male long, bijDectinate, the pectinations finely plumose, 

 antennae in female serrated ; body short, with a dense anal tuft in female. 



NEPITA COKrERTA (Plate 104, Fig. 7, la, S ^,'b, c, d, larva). 



Pitane conferta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 533 (1854). 

 Nepita signata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het, B. M. Suppl. p. 240 (1864). 



Male and female. Eeddish-ochreous ; cilia dark ochreous-brown : forewing 

 crossed by four dark ochreous-brown zigzag bands, the angles of the outer band 

 confluent with the exterior margin ; a black basal spot, and a spot at end of the cell : 

 hindwing with a broad outer marginal ochreous-black band, and a small spot at end 

 of the cell. Body reddish- ochreous ; thorax and legs black spotted ; abdomen with 

 broad black dorsal bands ; antennse black. 



Expanse, 6 1^, ? 1 inch. 



Larva short, tumid in the middle ; purple-black ; each segment thickly covered 



* Previously used for a genus of Lepidoptera. 



