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nearly one-half before end of the cell, first, second, and third branches wide apart; 

 discocellulars very slender and very oblique, upper bent inward, lower shortest, upper 

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

 lower at three-sixths before end of the cell : hindwing broadly oval ; cell extending 

 half the wing ; discocellulars erect ; radial very slender ; second subcostal at one- 

 sixth before end of the cell ; middle median from close to end and lower at nearly 

 one-half before end of the cell. Body long, slender; palpi lax, terminal joint short, 

 pointed ; legs comparatively naked ; antennae with slender pointed club. 

 Type, A. Jama. ^"^ 



ASTICTOPTERTJS STELLIFER. 



Astictopterus stellifer, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 2nJ ser. i. p. 555 (1876-9). 



Upperside glossy olivaceous ferruginous-brown. Male : forewing with a very 

 indistinct oblique discal series of small olive-yellow spots. Female : forewing with 

 two minute upper discal semi-transparent white spots and two above them before 

 the apex. Underside darker ferruginous-red. Male : forewing pale brown along 

 posterior border ; with a very minute indistinct white spot at end of the cell and two 

 before the apex : hindwing with a white spot at end of the cell, one above it near the 

 costa, and another below it towards anal angle, all with blackish borders. Female 

 brighter coloured, the spots more prominent, and the forewing with two additional 

 spots on the disc. Palpi and legs beneath olive-yellow. 



Expanse, ^1,9 lyV inch. 



" Colombo " {Hutchison). 



" Galle and Kandy" {Wade). 



" Low country principally. Numerous in Guinea-grass fields" {Mackwood). 



Genus M ATA PA. 



Forewing elongated, triangular ; cell extending two-thirds the wing, broadest 

 across the middle, very narrow at each end ; subcostals at equal distances apart ; 

 first branch emitted at one-third before end of the cell; discocellulars extremely 

 oblique, upper bent inward to subcostal, lower very slender, straight; upper radial 

 from the angle, lower from their middle ; upper median emitted from end of cell 

 opposite third subcostal, middle median at one-fifth and lower at nearly three-fifths 

 before end of the cell ; submedian curved in the middle. Male with an oblique discal 

 slender linear glandular streak of raised scales : hindwing short, rather broad ; 

 exterior margin convex in middle ; costal vein slightly arched in middle, extending 

 to apex ; second subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell ; the cell long, 

 broad across the middle ; discocellulars long and very oblique ; no radial perceptible ; 

 middle median close to end of the cell, lower at nearly one-fifth before the end ; 



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