1070 CATALOGUE OF 



uniguttata, gutta subapicali nigricante, macula apicall alba, 

 lineis duabus albidis subdenticulatis, punctis marginal! bus 

 nigris. 



Male. Fawn-colour, paler beneath. Palpi smooth, obliquely 

 ascending - , vising a little higher than the vertex ; third joint linear, 

 less than half the length of the second. Antennae minutely setulose. 

 Thorax white, except the fore tegulae. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings; apical tuft very small. Legs smooth, 

 stout. Wings with a white stripe, which occupies the base of the 

 hind wings and is chiefly subcostal in the fore wings, but extends 

 diffusedly to the costa and is abbreviated towards the tip, where 

 there is a blackish subapical dot and a white apical spot ; two 

 whitish slightly denticulated lines, of which the first is abruptly 

 retracted in the stripe to the costa and the second is accompanied 

 in the hind wings with black points ; marginal points black. 

 Fore wings acute, with a brown dot in the stripe near the hind 

 border and with three white costal points near the tip. Length of the 

 body 4J lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



Genus EPHYRODES, C. L. H. xv. 1587. 



Ephykodes lineifera. 



Foera. Pallide Jlavescenie-cinerea, nigra conspersa ; palpi pubes- 

 centes, oblique ascendentes, nigricante trifasciati, articulo 3o 

 lineari ; antenna setosa ; femora subjimbriata ; alee linea 

 obiiqua duplicata lineaque exterior e angulosa nigricantibus, 

 punctis submarginalibus nigris ; anticce lineis duabus basali- 

 bus nigris angulosis fasciam viridem inclndentibxis, vitta 

 nigricante, reniformi e strigulis duabus nigris ; postiece 

 maculis duabus nigro viridibus. 



Female. Pale yellowish cinereous, black-speckled. Frontal 

 tuft prominent. Palpi pubescent, obliquely ascending, rising 

 higher than the vertex; second joint with two blackish bands; 

 third linear, acute, with a blackish band near the tip, much shorter 

 and more slender than the second. Antennae slender, setose. Ab- 

 domen extending: a little beyond the hind wings; apical tuft small, 

 compressed. Femora slightly fringed. Wings with a double 

 oblique blackish line, which is retracted in front of the band of the 

 fore wings; an exterior zigzag blackish line; submarginal points 

 and marginal line black. Fore wings with two oblique zigzag 



