76 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



brown on tlie inner side, deeply notclied on the outer side, including the seventh spot, 

 which is costal ; marginal points blackish, elongated : hindwings brownish, marginal 

 line brown. 



" Expanse 19 lines." 



Family CALPIDiE. 



Imago with the forewing moderately broad, the posterior border excavated and 

 dentate. Body not crested ; antennjB acuminated, pectinated. Larva with sixteen 

 feet, glabrous, smooth, cylindrical, slightly moniliforra. Pupa amongst leaves or moss. 



Genus OR^SIA. 



OrcTsia, Gueuee, Noct. ii. p. 362 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lcp. Ilet. B. M. xii. p. 942 (1857). 

 Forewing elongated, apex acuminated, exterior margin angular in the middle, 

 oblique below the angle, posterior margin much excavated from the end, lobate 

 beyond the middle ; cell extending two-thirds the length, narrow ; first subcostal 

 emitted at about one-half befoi^e end of the cell, second at one-fourth, trifid, fifth 

 from end of the cell and touching third at a short distance from its base ; disco- 

 cellular inwardly oblique, concave in the middle, bent close to each end, radials from 

 the angles ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at one-fourth 

 before the end ; submedian much curved beyond the base : hindwing short, broad, 

 exterior margin very convex ; cell extending to half the length ; two subcostals from 

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

 upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-fourth before the end; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body stout, smooth, abdomen keeled above; palpi 

 porrect, thickly pilose, very broad laterally at the apex and pointed beneath, third 

 joint very short, thick ; autennse broadly pectinated on one side only to near the tip 

 in the male; legs stout, squamose, middle and hind spurs long. (0. redistria.) 



OR.a:SIA EMARGINATA (Plate 153, Fig. 2, ? , 2a, larva). 



Noctua emartjinata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 240 (1793). 



Oroesia emanjiiiata, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 363 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 944. 



Orwsia allkiens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. 945 (1857), cJ. 



Orcesia tentans, Walker, id. p. 945, $. 



Forewings dark ferruginous, with two transverse, indistinct, pale purpHsh-grey 

 bordered dark brown very oblique subbasal angular lines, two similar medial lines, 

 and three discal lines, the three latter lines bent inward to the costa and their angles 

 extending acutely towards the apex ; beyond is a submargiual sinuous line ; the basal 

 line and the medial below the cell, and the outer discal line black, the intermediate 



