14 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



Genus GLOTTULA. 



Gloltvla, Gu.'iiee, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vi. p. 357 (1837) ; Noct. i. p. 114 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 



B. M. ix. p. 139. 

 Male. Forewing elongated; costa straight, apex rounded, exterior margin 

 oblique, posterior angle convex ; cell narrow, long, extending nearly two-thirds the 

 wing ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, 

 trifid, fifth from end of the cell and touching third near its base; discocellular 

 inwardly oblique, bent in the middle, radials from upper end and below the middle; 

 middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at nearly one-third before 

 the end; submedian curved: hindwing short, exterior margin convex; cell broad, 

 upper end extending to beyond one-half the wing; two subcostal brauches from end 

 of the cell ; discocellular inwardly oblique, very slender, radial from below the middle, 

 very slender ; two upper medians from immediately beyond end of the cell, lower at 

 one-fourth before tbe eud ; submedian and internal straight. Body stout, thorax 

 thick ; palpi short, porrect, extending slightly beyond the front, pilose, third joint 

 very short, thick ; antenna3 short, thick aud flattened from the base, scabrous ; legs 

 tLick, middle and hind tibice spuiTed. 

 Tii]^)e, G. Pancratii. 



GLOTTULA DOMINICA (Plate 145, Fig. 2, $ , 2a, larva). 

 Phalaina Nocitia Dominica, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 238, pi. 399, fig. h (1782). 

 Glottula Dominica, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 116 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 141. 



Forewing dark greyish violaceous-brown ; discal area suffused with ochreous, and 

 with a transverse submarginal slightly ferruginous-bordered ochreous denticulated 

 line ; across the middle are two black greyish-bordered sinuous lines with more or 

 less acute greyish points on the veins ; orbicular spot very indistinct ; reniform spot 

 pale, indistinctly formed, with ferruginous and black-streaked centre ; a marginal 

 grey-bordered black denticidated line: hindwing cinereous- white in male, slightly 

 brownish along anterior border, and brownish externally in female. Thorax, head, 

 and legs dark greyish violaceous-brown, abdomen dark cinereous-brown. 



Expanse, S 1^, ^ \J\j inch. 



Larva thick, warty; second to eleventh segment black, spotted with bluish- 

 white ; head, top of second segment, and the two anal segments red, with black 

 spots ; legs red ; forelegs black tipped. Pupa purplish-brown. 



" Feeds on Amaryllis." {Dr. Tlmuiites.) 



Family APAMIIDiE. 



Imago of small or medium size ; forewings in repose roof-shaped ; abdomen 

 generally smooth, sometimes crested. Larva thick, dull coloured, generally shining ; 



