83 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



middle medians from contiguous angles at the end, and iirst or lower median at 

 one-tliird before end of the cell ; submedian slightly recurved : hindwing short, 

 exterior margin very convex; two subcostal branches on a footstalk nearly one-half 

 beyond the cell ; upper end of cell short, lower end extending to nearly half the wing ; 

 discocellular obliquely concave, bent near lower end, radial from the angle ; two 

 median branches from end of the cell, first or lower at nearly one-half before the end. 

 Body stout, abdomen thick, densely tufted at apex; palpi long, slender, first and 

 second joints laxly pilose, third joint smooth ; antennae bipectinated to tip ; legs 

 laxly pilose beneath. 



BEMBINA APICALIS (Plate 111, Fig. 5, ? ). 

 Bemhina apicalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 505 (1865), ?. 



Female. Reddish-ochreous : forewing with an oblique antemedial and a post- 

 medial narrow zigzag band of brown scales, the latter band outwardly bordered by a 

 similar partly-confluent band, the band being dilated at the costal end and in the 

 middle ; a submarginal row of black-scaled spots ; cilia brown : hindwing paler. 

 Abdomen reddish-ochreous, anal tuft yellow ; thorax, head, and palpi greyish-ochreous ; 

 legs reddish-ochreous. 



Expanse, 9 If inch. 



Genus PORTHESIA. 



Porthesia, Stephens, lUust. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 65 (1828). 

 Arctornis (part), Germar, Prod. p. 18 (1812). 



Male : forewing short, triangular ; first subcostal branch emitted immediately 

 before end of the cell, second from the end, quadrifid, the fifth thrown off from 

 second at nearly one-half from its base ; discocellular concave, radial from upper end 

 of the cell ; two upper median branches from an angle at end of the cell, second from 

 angle immediately before the end, first or lower at nearly one-half before the end ; 

 submedian straight : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin very convex ; costal 

 vein arched at the base, extending to apex ; subcostal touching the costal at one-half 

 length of the cell, two subcostal branches on a footstalk one- third beyond end of the 

 cell ; discocellular obliquely concave ; cell short, broad ; median with three branches, 

 two upper bi"anches from angle at end of the cell, first or lower at one-fourth before 

 the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderate, tufted at anal end ; 

 thorax and head pilose ; palpi small, slender, compactly pilose, projecting beyond the 

 head ; antennse bipectinated ; legs and tarsi densely pilose, hind tibiee with four 

 spurs. Female. Wings slightly longer; abdomen stout, densely tufted at anal end; 

 antennse minutely bipectinated. 



Type, P. auriflua, Fabr, 



Bemark. — This genus (as pointed out by Mr. Butler) difi"ers from typical 



