144 TEE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



distance beyond end of tie cell ; discocellular bent inward before the middle, lower 

 end very oblique, radial from middle of upper end ; three medians, lower at beyond 

 one-third and middle branch at one-sixth before end of the cell ; a submedian, and a 

 short internal vein. Body extending beyond hindwings ; thorax robust, clothed with 

 long lax hairs ; abdomen pilose, tufted at the tip ; palpi porrect, thick, very laxly 

 pilose ; antennse very broadly bipectinated to tip, the branches ciliated ; legs laxly 

 pilose. 



SANGATISSA SUBCURVIFERA (Plate 134, Fig. 6, ^). 

 Dreata subcurvifera. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 375 (1865), ,^. 



Dull pale purplish greyish-ochreous : forewing palest, with two longitudinal 

 curved purple-black speckled bands, which are crossed by the several pale veins, and 

 a similar band on the exteinor margin ; the bands joining at the apex : hindwing 

 with a marginal and a submarginal similar band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs 

 above brighter ochreous. 



Expanse 2|- inches. 



Genus HONDELLA. 



Forewing long, fusiform; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end 

 of the cell, second at one-sixth, waved, third curved upward and touching second 

 near its base, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellular obliquely concave, bent near 

 lower end, radial from angle ; middle median from angle at one-sixth and lower at 

 three-sixths before end of the cell : hindwing long, extending beyond end of submedian 

 of forewing ; two subcostal branches on a footstalk beyond end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellular obliquely concave, bent near lower end, radial from its angle ; two upper 

 medians from end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end. Body short ; 

 thorax and head very laxly pilose ; palpi laxly pilose, antennse very broadly bipecti- 

 nated ; legs shghtly pilose. 



HONDELLA JUVENIS (Plate 137, Fig. 4, s). 

 PMlomacra juvenis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1099 (1855), 



Male : forewing fuliginous ochreous-brown, with a fascia of darker brown scales 

 below base of costal vein, another more broadly below the median vein, and a third 

 along the submedian: hindwing fuliginous-brown. Body, legs, and antennse darker 

 brown, shaft of antennge ochreous-brown. 



Expanse 1-jV inch. 



Genus LENODORA. 



Male. Wings very short and broad : forewing with the cell long, narrow, 

 extending nearly half the wing ; subcostal six-branched, very thick at its base, first 

 branch emitted at one-third, second at one-half, and fourth from immediately before 



