182 THE LEPIBOPTEEA OF CEYLOm 



submedian straight, internal recurved. Body short, robust ; palpi laterally com- 

 pressed in front, terminal joint short, conical; legs naked; antennal hooked-club 

 thick and bluntly pointed. 

 Type, A, Ransonneti. 



ABARATHA RANSONNETI (Plate 97, Fig. 1). 



Pterygospidea Eansonnetii, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesch. 1868, p. 284. 

 Pterygospidea Potiphera, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. v. Pfer. pi. 1, fig. 7 (1873). 



Upperside fuliginous ochreous-brown. Male : forewing with three small semi- 

 transparent white spots before the apex (and sometimes one or two very minute spots 

 obhquely below them), two spots within end of the cell, a slender spot between the 

 upper and middle median veins, a larger spot between the latter vein and submedian, 

 and followed below it by two small obliquely disposed spots ; a marginal double row 

 of pale indistinct small lunules : hindwing with a broad medial discal macular pale 

 ochreous band traversed by brown veins and a spot within end of the cell, the outer 

 discal area suifused with grey-brown. Cilia alternated with white. Female : forewing 

 with the spots and marginal lunules, and the macular band on hindwing more pro- 

 minent, the latter also more distinctly bordered with grey. Underside : forewing 

 paler brown ; the basal area greyish-white, the spots with clouded black outer 

 borders : hindwing greyish- white, the outer margin only being brown, traversed by 

 a curved discal series of small blackish spots. 



Expanse, c? If, ? If inch. 



" Colombo. In weedy places on borders of cultivation. Just before S."W. 

 monsoon. Ifot common. Slow flier; settles in grass" (Eutchiso7i). 

 "Kandy" (TFaffo). 

 " Low country. Not common" (lffflcZ;M;oo(^). 



Genus HESPERIA. 



Hesperia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 258, sect. 2, p. 325 (1793). 

 Pyrgus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 109 (1816). 

 Scelothrix, Eamb. Catal. Lep. Andal. i. p. 63 (1858). 

 Syrichtus, Boisduval, Icones, p. 230 (1832-3). 



Wings small : forewing elongated, triangular ; exterior margin short ; cell of 

 nearly uniform width and convex at the end ; first subcostal beyond one-third before 

 end of the cell, second and third branches at very wide and equal distances apart 

 from the first ; discocellulars convex, upper radial from angle near subcostal, lower 

 from their middle ; the middle median at one-sixth and lower at four-sixths before 

 end of the cell ; submedian straight : hindwing broadly conical ; second subcostal at 

 one-fourth before end of the cell, and in a hue with base of the first ; discocellulars 

 shghtly obhque and concave, slender ; radial from their middle ; the middle median 



