82 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



tlie inner upper and lower ends of the border of tlie discal fascia, and some indistinct 

 black spots disposed transversely between its outer border and the submarginal fascia : 

 hindwing cupreous-black, with two small golden-yellow upper discal spots and two 

 lower streaks ; cilia cuprescent-cinereous. Body dark olive-brown above ; abdomen 

 beneath scarlet-red ; palpi and thorax beneath, and legs ochreous-yellow ; middle and 

 hind tibire with a pale scarlet streak. Female : forewing dark olivaceous sepia-brown, 

 with a few very prominent olive-yellow scales at the costal end of the inner discal 

 fascia, and a broad oblique patch of olive-yellow scales below the cell, and also an 

 outwardly oblique series from the costa before the apex : hindwing and body as 

 in male. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Genus MACEDA. 



Maceda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1440 (1857). 

 Calduha, Walker, id. xv. p. 1815 (1858). 



Forewing moderately elongated, rather broad, almost rectangular, exterior 

 margin slightly oblique ; cell fusiform, extending three-fifths the length ; along the 

 upper end of the cell, in the male, is a semi-transparent vitreous streak, which is 

 scabrous both on the upper and underside of the wing ; first subcostal emitted at 

 one-half before end of the cell, curved upward from the base, second at one-fourth 

 before the end, trifid, third at one-fourth from base of second, and fourth at one-half 

 from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and joined by a short spur to the base 

 of third ; discocellular short, bent near lower end, radials from upper end and lower 

 angle ; middle median at one-sixth before end of the cell, lower at one-third ; sub- 

 median curved: hindwing short, apex and exterior margin convex; cell broad, 

 extending to half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 obhquely concave, radial from the extreme lower end ; two upper medians from a 

 footstalk one-fourth beyond end of the cell, lower close to end of the cell ; submedian 

 and internal vein shghtly curved, widely separated from the median. Body moderately 

 stout ; thorax robust, smooth, abdomen tapering to a point at apex ; palpi slender, 

 ascending to vertex, laxly squamose beneath, third joint short, conical ; antennje 

 finely pectinated in male, setose in female ; legs squamose, middle and hind tibia3 

 with very long spurs. 



MACEDA MANSUETA (Plate 154, Fig. 4, 5,^ q ). 

 Maceda manmeta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 1141 (1857), S ; id. xxxiii. p. 924, ?. 

 Calduba obtenta, Walker, id. xv. p. 1815 (1858), (J. 



Forewing purplish olivescent ochreous-brown ; with a transverse outwardly 

 oblique straight pale ochreous antemedial line, and an irregular sinuous postmedial 



