so THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



WESTERMANNIA SUPERBA (Plate 154, Fig. 1, la, larva). 

 Wcstermmmia snperba, llul)ner, Zutriige Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. 23, 162, fig. 323-4 (1823); Verz. 



bek. Sdimett. p. 2.TO ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 975. 

 Plvsiodes Westei-mannii, Giicnee, Noct. ii. p. 386, pi. 13, fig. 4 (1852). 



Male and female : forewing glossy cuprescent oclireous-brown, the basal area 

 from the costal edge, and irregularly across the middle of the disc to the submedian 

 vein, suffused with dull purpurescent silvery-white, enclosed within this area is an 

 oblique medial transverse cuprescent ochreous-brown patch, which is traversed by 

 the white discocellular and median vein, and also a minute black spot beyond lower 

 end of the cell; posterior border below the submedian vein pale brownishochreous ; 

 an indistinct blackish sinuous submarginal streak, and minute marginal dots : hind- 

 wing pale cuprescent cinereous-brown, darker externally ; cilia edged with whitish- 

 cinereous. Thorax pale brownish-ochreous ; head, palpi, and legs white ; abdomen 

 cinereous-brown. 



Expanse, ^ l-iVj ? Itu iuch. 



Larva pale olive-greeu, numerously dotted with yellow; a yellow dorsal line on 

 each segment, a small red streak on each cheek. Pupa reddish, partly pulverulescent- 

 white. 



" Feeds on Termiualia." (Thwaites.) 



Family HYBL^IDJE. 



Forewing generally rather broad, not excavated or angular. Thorax squamous. 

 Larva with sixteen feet, thick, attenuated at the ends ; with a few short silky hairs. 

 Lives in a rolled leaf, feeding from the open ends. Pupa enclosed amongst leaves. 



Genus HYBL^A. 

 Hyhlma, Fabricius, Ent. Sy.st. iii. 2, p. 127 (1793); Guen. Noct. ii. p. 390; Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. 



B. M. xii. p. 979. 

 Euschesis (part), llubner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 221 (1818-25). 



Forewing moderately short, broad, apex hardly pointed, exterior margin slightly 

 convex and oblique, posterior margin convexly angular towards the base ; each sub- 

 costal branch free, first emitted at three-fifths before end of the cell, second at one- 

 fifth, third and fourth from angles close to end of the cell, and fifth from the end of 

 the cell; discocellular inwardly oblique, bent near each end, concave in the middle, 

 radials from upper and lower angles ; middle median at one-ninth before end of the 

 cell, lower at one-third ; submedian slightly curved ; a recurved internal vein which 

 is well separated from the submedian and extends to half length of the margin : 

 hindwing short, apex convex, exterior margin very oblique, convex ; cell extending 



