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THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



submedian recurved from the base : liindwing short, broad, apex convex, exterior 

 maro-iu convex, waved ; cell less than half the length ; two subcostals fi'om end of 

 the cell ; discocellular slightly oblique, bent below the middle, radial from the angle ; 

 two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian and internal 

 vein straight. Body thick, thorax laxly clothed; abdomen carinated above, tip 

 pointed ; palpi ascending, curved, reaching to the vertex, compactly squamose, third 

 joint short, thick, conical ; antennae setaceous ; legs stout, tibiae clothed with short 

 coarse hairy scales, tarsi thick ; spurs long and stout. 

 {Type, C. Siderea.) 



CALLYNA COSTIPLAGA (Plate 156, Fig. 10). 



Forewing violaceous-brown, minutely speckled with yellowish-ochreous scales ; 

 a broad short costal transverse antemedial and a postmedial violet-black irregular 

 quadrate band, each margined by a pale-bordered blackish Hue, which indistinctly 

 form the ordinary transverse hues, the postmedial line being sinuous below the band 

 and with white points; a submarginal pale zigzag band with black streaks below 

 middle of the band, and a pure white patch between the band and the apex ; a 

 marginal blackish lunular line; orbicular and reniform mark large, defined by 

 yellowish-ochreous scales : hindwing dusky brown, paler towards the base, cilia pale 

 cinereous-brown. Body violaceous-brown, abdomen paler ; thorax with a broad black 

 collar ; head, and tip of palpi black ; palpi beneath, and legs yellowish-ochreous ; legs 

 with blackish speckled bands. 



Expanse, (? 1|, ? \\ inch. 



Genus DINUMMA. 

 Dinumma, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. .xv. p. ISOo (1858). 

 Ortheaga, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 927 (1865). 



Forewing elongated, costa slightly arched, apex pointed, exterior margin slightly 

 oblique, posterior margin convex at the base ; cell extending to half the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third 

 at one-fifth from base of second, and fourth at three-fourths from base of third, fifth 

 from end of the cell, and very slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular 

 outwardly recurved, bent close to each end, radials from the angles ; middle median 

 from close to end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian recurved : 

 hindwing slioi't, apex and exterior margin very convex ; cell short, reaching only 

 one-third 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 

 from close to the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body stout ; thorax 

 squamous, abdomen crested ; palpi erect, long, rather slender, squamous, second joint 



