158 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



inward near the subcostal ; upper radial from its angle, lower from their middle ; 

 upper median branch, arched at the base within the cell, middle median at two-thirds 

 before end of the cell and close to the lower median ; submedian recurved. Male 

 Avith a large basal circular glandular patch of raised scales : hindwing short, broad, 

 anterior margin much arched, exterior margin convex, abdominal margin short ; 

 costal vein arched towards the end, cell short ; second subcostal at nearly one-third 

 from the base ; discocellulars very slender, outwardly oblique, concave ; radial from 

 their middle ; two upper median branches from end of the cell, lower from one-third 

 before the end ; submedian and internal slightly curved. Body very robust ; palpi 

 thick, flat in front, bristly at the side, third joint long, naked, cylindrical ; antennee 

 short, thick, tip long and slender. Femora pilose beneath ; tibiae tufted ; hind tibise 

 also incrassated. 



Type, I. ffidipodea. 



ISMENE (EDIPODEA (Plate 64, Fig. 2, a, h). 

 Ismene CEdipodea, SwaiusoD, Zool. Illustr. i. pi. 16 (1820-1); Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. 1. C. i. 

 p. 247, pi. 7, fig. 4, 4a. 



Male. Upperside ochreous olive-brown : forewing with an ochreous-red costal 

 band which also extends across base of the cell ; a large black basal patch below the 

 cell. Cilia of forewing pale brownish-grey, of hindwing ochreous-red. Female. 

 Differs above only in the absence of the basal black patch, and beneath in the less 

 prominent white posterior marginal band. Underside ochreous-brown : forewing 

 with a paler ochreous subapical and a marginal fascia, and a broad whitish posterior 

 band : hindwing with bright ochreous-red longitudinal streak between the veins, 

 broadest between the median, submedian and abdominal margin ; a small black spot 

 at the base above the costal vein. Thorax in front, head, palpi, body beneath, and 

 legs, ochreous-red ; terminal joint of palpi brown. 



Expanse, ^ 2, ? 2| inches. 



" Near Trincomalie, in forest path ; August. Very quick flier, but fearless " 

 {Hutchison). 



" Kandy ; Balangada. Scarce " (lFac?e). 



Genus CHOASPES. 



Forewing somewhat narrower and more regularly trianguhir than in Ismene ; 

 cell broader; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell; disco- 

 cellulars very oblique; middle median emitted at one-fourth and lower at three- 

 fourths before end of the cell. No glandular patch in male : hindwing somewhat 

 shorter; anterior margin more oblique, anal margin prominently lobed, abdominal 

 margin longer ; second subcostal emitted at one-third from the base ; middle median 



