,06 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



joined to third by a short spur near its base; discocellular slender, outwardly 

 obhque, radials from upper and near lower end ; middle median from angle near end 

 of the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian shghtly curved : hindwing short, small, 

 apex convex; first subcostal from an angle immediately before end of the cell; 

 discocellular deeply concave, slender, radial from close to lower end ; middle median 

 from ano-le near end of the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body moderately stout, abdomen fusiform, keeled above, flat beneath, base 

 and thorax slightly crested, and with a slight anal tuft in male, pointed in female ; 

 palpi porrect, laxly squamose, scales long above second joint and partly covering 

 third joint ; second joint projecting half beyond the head, third joint linear, nearly 

 as long as second ; antenna3 of male setulose, furnished with long set^ towards the 

 base, setose in female ; legs stout, forelegs densely pilose, middle and hindlegs laxly 

 squamose, spurs long. 

 Tijpe, P. frontalis. 



PLOTHEIA FRONTALIS (Plate 157, Fig. 6, ? ), 

 Plotheia frontalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1109 (1857), ?. 

 Othora canescens. Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 904 (1865), ? . 



Female : forewing pale brownish-ochreous ; crossed, by apparently five, inner 

 indistinct blackish sinuous Hues, and a curved discal denticulated Hue, followed by a 

 less apparent submarginal line ; orbicular and reniform spots composed of black 

 raised scales, the latter with an indistinct outer ring : hindwing pale ochreous-brown. 

 Body pale brownish-ochreous; abdomen with indistinct brown segmental dorsal 

 rings ; legs ochreous, with pale brown bands. 



Expanse Ijo inch. 



PLOTHEIA LATIVITTA (Plate 157, Fig. 11, ?). 



Female : forewing very pale brownish-ochreous, with a broad purplish violet- 

 brown anterior band extending from the costa near the base, below the cell, and 

 thence to the exterior margin below the apex, leaving a slender pale costal space near 

 the apex, the wing also indistinctly crossed by the ordinary sinuous blackish lines ; 

 the orbicular and reniform spots of raised black scales : hindwing pale ochreous- 

 brown ; cilise ochreous- white. Body very pale brownish-ochreous ; abdomen with 

 indistinct brown segmental rings ; forelegs brown above. 



Expanse It^j- inch. 



PLOTHEIA SPURCATA (Plate 157, Fig. 5, <?, 7, ? ). 

 Gadirtha spiircata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 896 (1865), $. 

 Othora lata, Walker, id. p. 909, ? . 



Male : forewing dusky greyish-brown, crossed by eight black sinuous lines, the 



