LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 297 



Male and female. Pale luteous. Wings slightly and minutely 

 speckled with brown, more speckled beneath ; a discal point, which 

 is black in the fore wings, brown in the hind wings, brown and 

 larger on the under side. Fore wings with a very oblique sub- 

 marginal row of brown dots, which are composed of speckles. Hind 

 wings paler. Length of the body 4 — 7 lines ; of the wings 13 — 22 

 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



Cycnia rubida. 



Fcem. Ferrugineo-rufa ; thorax fusco-ruf us ; ala antica? nigro 

 conspersa, linea discali transversa brevi lata; postica? rufe- 

 scente-cinerea. 



Female. Ferruginous-red. Thorax brownish red. Fore wings 

 thickly and minutely speckled with black ; a short black transverse 

 discal line. Hind wings reddish cinereous. Length of the body 

 6 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



Genus ALPH^IA. 



Alph^a varia. 



Foem. Alba; caput subtus, palpi pedesque fusca ; thorax guttis 

 quatuor anticis fuscis ; abdomen pallide cinereum e guttis 

 fuscis trivittatum ; alee antica fascia dent.ala, lineis nonnullis 

 transversis macularibus guttisque tribus basalibus fuscis; 

 posticm cinerea^ macula discali, macula costali maculisque 

 tribus marginalibus fuscis. 



Female. White. Head beneath, palpi, antennae and legs 

 brown. Thorax with two brown dots on each side in front. Abdo- 

 men pale cinereous, with three rows of brown spots, of which those 

 in the middle row are angular. Fore wings with a brown band at 

 a little before the middle, indented along each side and most deeply 

 so on the outer side; four or five irregular transverse lines of brown 

 spots and dots, of which one is marginal and one is between the band 

 and the base, where there are three brown dots by the costa. Hind 

 wings cinereous, with a brown spot in the disk, another and smaller 

 one on the costa nearer the base, and a submarginal band of three 

 elongated brown spots. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 

 18 lines. 



a. Mussorie. Presented by Sir J. Hearsey. 



