172 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



AMPITTIA MARO (Plate 71, Fig. 1, la). 



Hesperia Maro, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 432 (1798), $. 



Cyclopides Maro, Butler, Catal. Fabriciaa Lep. Brit. Mus, p. 279, pi. 2, fig. 12, $. 



Cyclopides Camertes, Hewitson, Desc. Hesp. p. 43 (1868), $. 



Upperside purplish olive-brown. Male : forewing with a broad golden-yellow 

 basal band which also crosses the cell, a broad subapical spot, a similar discal spot, 

 and a lower very small spot ; a pale band also along posterior margin : hindwing 

 with a broad medial golden-yellow band. Underside : forewing marked as above, 

 and with a marginal row of yellow-bordered blackish dots : hindwing with a subbasal 

 and two discal series of yellow spots. Body, palpi, legs, and antennae beneath 

 yellow. Cilia alternately brown and yellow. Female with paler similarly disposed 

 but much smaller markings, the basal band on forewing represented only by the ter- 

 minal portion at and above the cell, and the band on hindwing by well separated spots. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



" Kandy. In waste ground near forests ; 2000 feet. End of S.W. monsoon " 

 [Hutchison). 



" Kandy " {Wade and Mackwood). 



Genus TARACTOCERA. 



Taractocera, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 279 (1869); Ent. M. Mag, 1870, p. 97. 



Wings small : forewing triangular ; fourth and fifth subcostals, and upper 

 radial from end of the cell ; discocellulars very oblique, slender, upper longest, 

 lower radial from their middle ; the middle median at one-fifth and lower at one- 

 half before end of the cell ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, exterior margin 

 very convex; second subcostal at one-fifth before end of the cell; discocellulars 

 outwardly oblique, radial from the middle; tho middle median near to end and lower 

 at one-third before end of the cell ; submedian straight, internal recurved. Body 

 rather stout ; palpi erect, terminal joint long and slender ; legs naked ; antennse with 

 a short broad spatular club. 



Type, T. Msevius. 



TAEACTOCERA M^SEVniS (Plate 70, Fig. o). 



Hesperia Mcevivs, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 352 (1793). 



Taractocera Mmvius, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 279, pi. 3, fig. 13. 



Hesperia Flaccus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 434 (1793). 



Male and female. Upperside pale olive-brown : forewing with a yellowish- 

 white slender streak at lower end of the cell and joined above at the end by a smaller 

 streak reaching to the costa ; three minute spots obliquely before the apex, two 

 below them nearer the outer margin, and a discal sinuous series of small spots : 

 hindwing with a slender medial discal series of very small spots. Cilia yellowish- 

 white. Underside paler ; brighter tinted in female ; markings more distinct, the 



