MIGOl'LASTIS. — PAKArLASTIS. 



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coxae with black points ; legs striped with fuscous ; abdomen 

 strongly tinged with orange-yellow, a dorsal series of black bands 

 and lateral and sublateral series of points. Fore wing very slightly 

 tinged with fuscous ; two black points ab base. Hind wing and 

 underside of fore wing strongly tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya ((^/-g^n), 1 c? , 2 $ type. Ex^., 6 50, 

 $ 52 millim. 



Sect. II. {Migoplastis). Hind wing of male with tbe terraen not excised ; 

 antennae with the branches long. 



2125. Migoplastis correcta. 



Hypsa correcta, Wlk. xxxi. 217(1864); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 44 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 393. 

 Migcplastis ceylonica, Feld. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii. p. 285 (1868); 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii. p. 54, pi. 100. f. 5. 



Fig. 227. — Migoplastis correcta, (^ . \. 



Head and thorax brown ; palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints 

 blackish ; vertex of head, tegulae, shoulders, pro- meso- and meta- 

 thorax, pectus and fore coxae with black points ; abdomen orange, 

 with dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black points, the ventral 

 surface tinged with brown. Pore wing brown, with obscure paler 

 band across and beyond end of cell from costa to vein 1, slightly 

 angled at median nervure, then oblique. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



JIab. Ceylon, Pundaloya (Green), 2 (S , 2 $, type. Krp. 52 

 millim. 



Genus PARAPLASTIS, nov. 



Type, P. hampsoni. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd somewhat porrect ; irons with slight txift of hair ; antennae 

 bipectinate with moderate branches in both sexes; tibire with the spurs short. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 5 from just above angle; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 

 8 from middle of cell ; male with the terinen strongly excised towards tornus, 

 the inner margin folded over below, the terminal area between veins 6 and 1 

 on upperside clothed with rough scales. 



2126. Paraplastis hampsoni. 



Migoplastis hampsoni, Swinh. F. Z. S. 1889, p. 402, pi. 43. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 44 ; Kirby, Cat. Het, p. 393. 



<^ . Brown; palpi black towards tips; frons, vertex of head, tegulae, 

 shoulders, pro- meso- and metathorax, pectus and fore coxae with 



