134 EPIPLEMID®. 
an indistinct antemedial ferruginous curved line, with a white 
patch at inner margin; a more prominent postmedial line; a 
submarginal rufous and black line. 
Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 
3069. Dirades prunaria, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 400; C & S. 
no. 3066. 
2. Dark purplish red-brown. Fore wing with large dark 
patches on the costa and inner margin, just beyond the middle, 
with ferruginous edges; a narrow nearly regular dark marginal 
band. Hind wing with a similar band from veins 2 to 7; the 
outer margin produced to a point at veins 7 and 4, and slightly 
at 6. Underside dark. 
Hab. Ceylon. Hap. 20 millim. 
Genus GATHYNIA. 
Gathynia, Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1689 (1862). 
Type, G. miraria, W1k. 
Range. Kangra; Sikhim; Bombay; Nilgiris; Ceylon. 
Palpi slender and obliquely porrect; antenne thickened and 
flattened in both sexes. Fore wing broad, the outer margin 
evenly rounded; vein 5 from just above the middle of disco- 
cellulars ; 6 and 7 from angle of cell or on a short stalk; 8 and 9 
stalked; 10 and 11 stalked. Hind wing with the costa excised 
and bearing tufts of hair near the base and apex; outer margin 
produced to points at veins 6 and 4; vein 5 from the middle of 
discocellulars; 6 and 7 from angle of cell; 3 curved. Male with 
a fold on inner area containing a tuft of long hair, the internal 
veins being distorted. 
The species repose in the form of a cross, with the fore wings: 
rolled up at right angles to the body, the hind wings folded close 
. against the body. 
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3070. Gathynia_miraria,. Wik. Cat. xxvi, p. 1639; C. & S. no. 3072; 
“Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iti, pl. 187, fig. 4. 2 
Pale fuscous brown ; fore wing: 
with an ochreous subapical patch 
outwardly defined by a dark line.. 
Hind wing with the folds on 
inner area and down the middle 
pale, so thut the markings are 
confined to the costal and sub- © 
: median areas, which are crossed 
by an indistinct antemedial line 
and well-defined brown, black, and pale postmedial line; a lunu- 
late marginal line. 
Hab. Sikhim; Bombay; Nilgiris; Ceylon. Lwp., g 28, 2 30 
millim., 
Fig. 73. 
Gathynia miraria, S. +}. 
