68 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



line, a subraarginal broad black zigzag line, and a marginal row of black linear spots : 

 hindwing pale brownish-cinereous, with a paler interciliary line. Body and legs 

 brownish-cinereous ; legs with blackish bands. 

 Expanse ^V i"ch. 



CHLUMETIA EGENS (Plate 151, Fig. 9). 

 ? egens, Walker, MS. Bi-it. Mus. Cabinet. 



Forewuig purplish-grey; minutely black speckled; crossed by a black basal, 

 subbasal, and a recurved medial sinuous line, an angulated discal denticulated line, 

 and a slender sinuous submarginal line ; a small black orbicular and reniform spot : 

 hindwing cinereous-grey, dusky brown externally, with two black-speckled sinuous 

 streaks above the anal angle, and a marginal row of black linear spots. Thorax 

 purplish-grey, abdomen cinereous- grey ; palpi cinereous-grey, black speckled ; tarsi 

 with black bauds. 



Expanse -^^^ to y^ inch. 



Family PLTJSIID-S:. 



Imago with the forewing smooth, shining, and generally with discal metallic 

 spots : wings in repose forming a sloping roof. Flight diurnal and nocturnal. Larva 

 with twelve or sixteen legs, half looped ; attenuated anteriorly ; with bristly spots on 

 flesby points. Feeds exposed on shrubs or herbaceous plants. Pupa in a silken 

 cocoon, above ground. 



Genus ABROSTOLA. 



Ahrostola, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 88 (1816); Samoiielle, Ent. U. Comp. p. 252 (1819) ; 



Guenee, Noct. i. p. 320; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 880. 

 Ilahroslola, Sodoffsky, Bull. Imp. Soc. Mosc. pt. vi. p. 15 (1837). 



Forewing elongated, apex pointed, exterior margin oblique, convex, posterior 

 margin recurved ; cell long ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, 

 second at one-sixth, trifid, third at about one-third from base of second, and fourth 

 at one-half from base of third, fifth from end of the cell, curved upward and very 

 shghtly touching third at half-way between its base and the fourth ; discocellular 

 slightly concave, bent at upper and near lower end, radials from the angles, middle 

 median from angle near end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian 

 sUghtly recurved : hindwing short ; cell broad, extending less than half the length ; 

 two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular bent in the middle, radial from 

 below the middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third before 



