90 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



connected in the forepart of the disc ; exterior border reddish-brown ; orbicular and 

 renif orm marks obsolete : hindwings pale fawn-colour, with a broad darker border ; 

 fringe pale. "Wings beneath with a large dark brown discal spot and with a paler 

 brown exterior line. Third joint of the palpi as long as the second. 



" Expanse 16 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



OPHIUSA SEXLINEA. 



Toxocmnpa sexlinea, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 872 (1865). 



" Female. Cinereous fawn-colour, paler beneath : forewings with six slender 

 indistinct brownish nearly upright lines; first almost obsolete, second, third, and 

 fourth slightly undulating, fifth almost straight, sixth denticulated ; reniform mark 

 blackish, narrow, forming a truncated lunule, between the third and fourth lines ; 

 orbicular forming a whitish dot containing a black point : hindwings without lines ; 

 underside with a brown discal lunule. Head and forepart of thorax brown. 



" Expanse 15 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



OPHIUSA DORSIGERA. 



Toxocampa dorsigera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 873 (1865). 



" Female. Cinereous-brown, paler beneath : forewings transversely cinereous- 

 streaked ; submarginal line cinereous, nearly straight ; a more exterior row of black 

 points, of which the largest is near the interior angle ; orbicular mark forming a 

 whitish point ; reniform deep black, emitting a streak towards the costa and accom- 

 panied on the outer side by an elongated dot : hindwings dingy cinereous, with 

 a broad diffuse brown border ; fringe pale cinereous. Palpi slightly ascending, 

 extending leather beyond the head ; second joint broad, third elongate-conical, one- 

 fourth length of the second. Thorax deep black in front ; legs stout, femora and 

 tibias fringed. 



" Expanse 28 lines." 



Family HOMOPTERIDJE. 



Imago with the forewings moderately broad and triangular ; abdomen mostly 

 with crests. Larva with sixteen feet, the first two pairs of ventrals aborted. 



