84 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



COSMOPHILA XANTHYNDIMA (Plate 155, Fig. 1, 1 a, 6, c? ? , larva). 

 Cosmnphila xanthyndimn, Boisduval, Faun. Eiit. Madag. Boiir. et Maur. Lep. p. 94, pi. 13, fig. 7, c? 



(1834) ; Gm'nee, Noct. ii. p. 396 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 987, ^. 

 Cosmophila indica, Giu'nee, Noct. ii. p. 396, ? (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 986. 

 Cirrmlia variolosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xi. p. 750 (1857), $ . 

 Cirrivdia edentata, Walker, id. xi. p. 750 (1857), ? . 



Male : forewing oclireous-yellow, speckled with ocbreous-red from the base to 

 the middle, the outer half being pale purplish brownish- ochreous ; two short subbasal 

 costal angular oclireous-brown lines, an outwardly oblique angulated antemedial line, 

 an inwardly oblique medial line, followed by an upper discal slender line, and a sub- 

 marginal dusky brown angulated fascia ; orbicular mark small, defined by an oval 

 brown ring, reniform mark large, dusky lilacine-brown, with a dusky brown spot 

 below it : hiudwing pale brownish-ochreous. Thorax, head, and palpi ochreous, 

 speckled with ochreous-red ; legs whitish, speckled with purphsh-ochreous. 



Female : forewing more uniformly paler ochreous, the transverse lines and the 

 basal speckles as in male, but less distinct ; orbicular and reniform mark paler : 

 hind wing paler ochreous. 



E.Kpanse, <J 1, 2 \\ inch. 



Larva with fourteen legs, semi-looped; grass-green, with a dorsal and lateral 

 hne of minute white dots ; middle and hind claspers reddish. Pupa purpUsh-red. 



" Feeds on Eihiscus." {Dr. Thwaites.) 



Genus GONITIS. 

 Gonitis, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 403 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 997. 



Forewing elongate, moderately broad, costa almost straight, apex acute, extei-ior 

 margin acutely angular in the middle ; cell long; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths 

 before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, third at one-fourth from base of 

 second, and fourth at three-fourths from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and 

 slightly touching the third near its base; discocellular inwardly oblique, concave, 

 radials from close to each end; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, 

 lower at one-third ; submedian slightly curved : hindwing short, broad, exterior 

 margin almost angular in the middle ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellular slightly bent in the middle, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians 

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

 Body stout ; palpi ascending above the head, second joint squamose, third joint long, 

 acuminate at tip ; antennas ciliated ; legs rather thick, compactly clothed with long 

 scales, spurs very long. {0. mesogona.) 



