34 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



exterior margin oblique, convex and sinuous; cell long; first subcostal branch 

 emitted at half length of the cell, second at three-fourths its length, trifurcate, third 

 emitted at one-third beyond base of the second, and fourth at about one-half from 

 base of third, fifth from end of the cell and touching the third near its base ; disco- 

 cellular deeply concave, upper radial from angle close to upper end of the cell, lower 

 radial from angle near lower end of the cell ; upper median from angle above and 

 middle median from end of the cell, third at one-third before its end ; submedian 

 concave near its base : hindwing triangular, apex convex ; exterior margin oblique, 

 recurved, slightly sinuous ; cell short ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular very slender, angled inward in the middle, a slender radial from the 

 angle ; two upper median branches from lower end of the cell, third branch at half 

 before its end. Body stout, abdomen long; palpi short, ascending, compactly 

 clothed, second joint thick, third joint short ; legs compactly pilose above ; antennas 

 setose. 



TIRACOLA PLACIATA (Plate 148, Fig. 1, $ , la, larv.a). 



Agrotis plaffiata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xi. p. 740 (1857), c?. 



Tiracola pkigiata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 351. 



Agrotis pluijifera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. .xi. p. 741 (1857), 9. 



Forewing brownish-testaceous, speckled with brown, crossed by a more or less 

 indistinct brownish basal and a subbasal angular line, a suffused medial line, a denti- 

 culated line with darker points, and a pale waved submarginal line ; orbicular spot 

 small, jDale, reniform mark large, brown, enclosed in a broad triangular brown costal 

 patch ; a brownish zigzag fascia on exterior border : hiodwing pale cinereous-brown, 

 paler along the costa; cilia cinereous- white. Body brownish-testaceous; palpi and 

 tarsi with brown bands. 



Expanse If to 2 inches. 



Larva dull violet-brown ; with a few fine dorsal hairs, a few scattered grey dots, 

 and a sublateral pale olivaceous band from fourth segment ; head small ; head and 

 legs violet-grey ; twelfth segment conical. Pupa dark red. 



" Feeds on Emilia." {Dr. ThwaUes.) 



Genus GRAPHIPHORA. 



Grajiliiphdni, Oflifeiilieimer, Scbmett. Eur. iv. p. 68 (1816) ; Samouelle, Ent. U. Comp. p. 251 (1819). 



Jlale : forewing elongate, apex pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique, and 

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

 fifth, trifid, fifth fro:n end of the cell and touching third close to its base ; disco- 

 cellular deeply concave, bent close to each end, radials from the angles ; middle 

 median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian recurved : 



