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AECTIIDJE. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 10 present. 

 1494. Chamaita nymplia, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 536, pi. 211, fig. 11. 



5 . Differs from neuropteroides in having a fulvous spot at 

 centre of cell of fore wing. 



Fig. 81. — Chamaita nympha, §. \. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus CACYPARIS. 



Cacyparis, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1572 (1862). 

 Ballatha, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1214 (1865). 



Type, C. insolitata, "Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon ; Solomons. 



Palpi upturned, the 3rd joint very long, slender, and knobbed 

 at the end. Antennae fasciculate in male. Fore wing broad, the 

 apex acute ; veins 3, 4, 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 arising from 10 and anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from 

 above the angle ; 6 and 7 from upper angle ; 8 from before middle 

 of cell. 



1495. Cacyparis insolitata, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1572; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii. pi. 198, figs. 5, 5 a ; C. $ S. no. 3547. 

 Ballatha atrotumens, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1215. 



Head and thorax purplish grey. Eore wing purplish grey, the 

 basal area suffused with silver scales and bounded by an ill-defined 



silvery band ; a silver band on 

 discocellulars ; a postmedial 

 curved silver band with a spot 

 of raised shining black scales on 

 the inner margin just within it ; 

 an oval black subapical spot 

 ringed with ochreous and bi- 

 sected by an ochreous line, with 

 an oblique silver line from the 

 costa to its inner edge ; cilia 

 silvery. Hind wing ochreous, 

 suffused with fuscous, except the costal area. Abdomen yellow, 

 suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon, Exp., tf 32, $ 36 millim. 



Fig. 82. 

 Cacyparis insolitata, $ 



