36 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



tlie radial and three medians being near together at lower end of the cell ; submedian 

 and internal vein curved. Body moderate, abdomen tufted at apex ; palpi ascending, 

 broad, compressed, laxly squamose, apical joint minute, conical; antennge finely 

 pectinated ; legs squamose, middle and hind tibite spurred. 



ARAMUNA MARGINATA (Plate 149, Fig. 6,S)- 

 Male : forewing brownish-ochreous, with a dark brown irregular bordered 

 marginal baud, a small indistinct brown-speckled spot at upper end of the cell, and 

 a discal row of minute brown dots : hindwing pale yellowish-ochreous, with a large 

 oval brownish-ochreous glandular patch of scales disposed between the costal and 

 median veins, and woolly scales on the apical border. Body above brownish-ochreous, 

 anal tuft dark brown ; palpi and legs dark brown. 

 Expanse I4 inch. 



Family HADENIDJE. 



Imago with moderately broad wings ; abdomen more or less crested ; in repose 

 the wings form a very inclined roof. Larva smooth, not shining, the spots not 

 raised, sometimes with the twelfth segment humped ; feeds exposed or simply 

 sheltered on trees or shrubs. Pupa enclosed in an oval cocoon and buried more or 

 less deeply. (Stainton.) 



Genus TRACHEA. 



Trachea, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 75 (1816); Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 219; 

 Samouelle, Ent. U. Comp. p. 251. 



Male : forewing elongate, exterior margin slightly oblique and scalloped ; cell 

 extending two-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the 

 cell, second at one fourth, trifid, third at one-third from base of second, fourth at 

 one-third from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and touching third halfway 

 between its base and fourth ; discocellular bent inward acutely in the middle and 

 outward near lower end, radials from upper end and lower angle ; middle median 

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

 median recurved : hindwing short, exterior margin oblique, waved, scalloped ; cell 

 broad ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave before the middle, 

 radial from below the middle ; the middle median from angle immediately before end 

 of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein curved. 

 Body stout, laxly clothed ; thorax crested, abdomen with dorsal crests and lateral 

 tufts ; palpi ascending, short, first and second joints broad, laxly clothed, third joint 

 short, thick ; anteunje finely ciliated ; legs stout, tibi« thickly clothed, middle and 

 hind tibifB sparred. 



(Type, T. atrqdlcU.) 



