188 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
discocellulars outwardly-oblique, upper discocellular short, extending outward in a 
nearly straight line with base of the subcostal, twice contiguously bent at its outer 
end, the lower discocellular long and deeply concave ; the radials from angles of upper 
discocellular ; median veinlets equidistant apart, the upper angled at end of the cell; 
submedian vein recurved from its base. Hindwing broad, triangular ; costa slightly 
arched, apex and exterior margin conyex, the exterior margin broadly, somewhat 
subangulate in the middle; abdominal margin long; anal angle obtuse ; cell narrow, 
entirely open; lower half of the cell and the longitudinal fold below the median from 
the base clothed with fine hairs; with a conspicuous large obconical velvety-black 
glandular patch on the upperside, situated across the base of the upper median vein- 
lets, the patch being clothed with densely-packed raised lengthened broad scales of 
equal width and with obtuse or slightly obtusely-dentate tip ; no androconia; also a 
small glandular pouch close to the base of the short internal vein, between it and the 
edge of abdominal margin, the pouch being covered with glossy smooth scales and 
enclosing an appressed tuft of short stout rigid hairs. Body robust, woolly ; abdomen 
beneath with a small glandular patch of laxly raised ochreous scales on each side of 
the keel near the base; head rather small, front woolly; palpi compressed, almost 
erect, extending above the vertex, compactly clothed beneath and hairy above, 
terminal joint short; antennz long, with a lengthened slender club; eyes large, 
prominent, naked ; forelegs of male small, very hairy. 
Avutt Carerrr.tar.—Long, cylindrical, anal segment furnished with two short 
divergent processes; head small; clothed with dorsal and lateral rows of fine short 
radiating hairs arising from tubercles. 
Foop Piant.—Feeds on the young leaves of the Cocoanut Palm (Cocos nucifera). 
CurysaLis.—Boat-shaped, broad across the middle; head-piece prolonged and 
acuminated into a bifid point. 
Typr.—D. Celinde. 
DISCOPHORA CONTINENTALIS (Plate 150, figs, 1, la, b,c, ¢ 2, larva and pupa). 
Discophora Celinde, Distant, Rhop. Malay. p. 75, pl. 5, figs. 10, 11,¢ 2 (1882). Marshall and de 
Nicéville, Butt. of India, ete. i. p. 295, fig. ¢ 9 (1883).—nee Stoll. 
Discophora continentalis et andamanensis, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 190 (1887). 
Ivaco.—Male. Upperside dark olivescent purplish-brown, with deep indigo- 
blue reflections in certain lights. Ciha ochreous. Forewing with a small pale 
ochreous longitudinally-oval spot beneath the lower subcostal, and a series of three 
more or less defined smaller lower decreasing lunate spots, followed by a submarginal 
series of four (sometimes five) smaller spots, which latter vary in size and are more 
or less lunate or pointed. Hindwing with a prominent obconical pale-bordered 
