108 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



indistinct medial sinuous fascia, two discal much outwardly-curved slender black 

 denticulated approximate lines, the outer line indistinct, followed by a submarginal 

 sinuous white-pointed line, and a slight brown marginal line with a white point on 

 each vein ; apex and posterior angle clouded with brown and sHghtly black streaked; 

 orbicular spot small, composed of raised black scales tipt with white, reuiform mark 

 large, defined by a slender black irregular shaped ring and a central spot of black 

 raised scales : hindwing dusky cinereous-brown ; ciha whitish-cinereous. Body 

 cinereous-brown ; teguljB cinereous tipt with black ; abdomen dusky cinereous at the 

 sides, eacli segment with two dorsal oval black rings ; palpi black speckled ; tibiie 

 and tarsi with black l^ands. 



Expanse \^ inch. 



Vaeiety. Male (Plate 157, fig. 10) : forewing ferruginous-brown, with short 

 black sinuous streaks from the costa, and an antemedial oblique transverse nearly 

 straight line, the black orbicular and reniform spots both of same size, the former 

 confluent with the transverse line ; apex and posterior angle clouded and black 

 streaked. Expanse liij- inch. 



PLOTHEIA LICHENOIDES (Plate 157, Fig. 9,^?). 



Galleriomorpha lichenoides, Felder, Wiea. Ent. Monats. vi. p. 37 (1862) ; No7. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 100, 

 fi^. 1.5 (1874), S ; Neituer, Observ. on Enemies of the Coff>3e Tree iu Ceylon, p. 23. 



Male : forewing dusky violaceous greyish-brown, crossed by a subbasal pale 

 hrownish-ochreous band, which is bordered outwardly by a distinct white waved line; 

 a prominent white curved discal Hue, followed by a submarginal indistinct ferruginous 

 sinuous line ; the lower subcostal vein and upper radial, and the submedian also lined 

 with white ; base of wing and medial area crossed by very indistinct sinuous blackish 

 lines ; a small orbicular and reniform spot of black raised scales : hindwing dusky 

 brown ; cilia cinereous-brown. Body dusky violaceous greyish-brown ; thorax 

 densely speckled with white scales ; abdominal rings indistinct ; legs with dark brown 

 l)ands. 



Expanse ly-jr inch. 



According to the observations of Mr. Nietner the larva of this species is occa- 

 sionally found feeding upon the Coffee-tree. 



PLOTHEIA GRISEOVIRENS (Plate 158, Fig. 2, ? ). 



Female : forewing pale sap-brown, crossed by greyish-white bordered indistinct 



blackish sinuous inner and outer lines, and prominent diffused black recurved discal 



lines, the latter with a prominent black streak above the lower end ; a ferruginous 



submarginal sinuous line ; the medial area between the discal and inner lines greyish- 



