138 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



followed by an outer straight duplex line, the latter extending from the apex to 

 posterior margin ; a small black- speckled spot at end of the cell : hindwing with two 

 indistinct ferruginous-brown transverse subbasal sinuous lines and a more distinct 

 waved discal line. Body greyish ferruginous-brown ; shaft of antennae greyish-brown. 

 Expanse 2 to 2^ inches. 



Genus MESSATA. 



Messata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1108 (1855). 

 Stenoglene (part), Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. iv. pi. 95 (1868-74). 



Male. Wings ample, short, broad : forewing triangular ; costa arched towards 

 end, exterior margin almost erect, very slightly convex ; cell short; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-fifth and second from immediately before end of the cell, trifid, fourth 

 at about one-fifth from beyond base of second, and fifth from end of the cell ; second 

 and fifth in some specimens of type both from end of the cell ; upper discocellular 

 bent sharply outward in the middle, the radial from its angle ; three median branches, 

 lower at one-half, and middle at nearly one-fourth before end of the cell ; submedian 

 straight, with a slender lower basal branch: hindwing short, broad; exterior margin 

 very convex ; cell short ; subcostal arched from the base ; two subcostal branches 

 on a footstalk one-fifth beyond end of the cell ; upper discocellular very short, bent 

 outward in middle, lower very outwardly oblique, radial from angle of the upper ; 

 lower median at one-half and middle median at nearly one-fourth before end of the 

 cell. Thorax broad, laxly pilose, with long radiating hairs projecting from each side ; 

 palpi porrect, thickly pilose, pointed at tip ; antennae deeply bipectinated ; legs pilose. 

 Female : forewing of a more lengthened triangular : hindwing larger and more 

 convex at apex. 



Type, M. plumipes. 



MESSATA PLUMIPES (Plate 133, Fig. 5, 5a, ^ $)• 



Dreata plumipes. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 907 (1855), $ . 

 Messata rubiginosa. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1108 (1855), J. 



Male. Dark ferruginous-brown : forewing with three transverse medial very 

 indistinct black-speckled waved bands, a very distinct broader, straight, oblique 

 discal band, and a parallel submarginal band : hindwing paler ferruginous-brown, 

 with an obsolescent slightly darker discal and submarginal band showing on some 

 specimens. Underside pale ferruginous. Female. Dark reddish-ferruginous, with 

 the transverse bands very indistinct ; abdomen paler ferruginous. 



Expanse, $ 2\, q 2| inches. 



