114 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



exterior margin oblique, scalloped ; cell extending two-fiftlis the length ; two sub- 

 costals from end of the cell ; discocellular bent in the middle, radial from near lower 

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

 internal vein slightly recurved. Body stout, abdomen crested; palpi ascending, 

 rather long, naiTow, laxly squamose, second joint reaching above the eyes, third joint 

 linear, obtuse at the tip, two-thirds the length of second ; antennse very minutely 

 pectinated; legs stout, pilose, spurs stout. Ttj}_ie, C. alchymista. 



CATEPHIA LINTEOLA (Plate 159, Fig. 1, §). 

 CatepJiia Unteola, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 44 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1126 (1857). 

 Male : forewing dark ferruginous-brown ; crossed by a black basal, subbasal, and 

 a medial erect duplex zigzag line, a more distinct recurved discal sinuous line, a pale 

 submarginal sinuous fascia, and a distinct marginal line ; a black orbicular dot and 

 reniform spot, the latter enclosed by a black ring ; a black ring-mark also below the 

 reniform ; the transverse area between the discal and subbasal lines and also of the 

 lower outer border suffused with dusky brown : hindwing dusky brown, with a broad 

 white ti-ansverse medial band ending above anal angle ; a small white costal spot, 

 and a slender subanal streak ; cilia bordering the apical spot white. Thoi'ax, head, 

 palpi, and legs dark ferruginous-brown, abdomen dusky brown. Female : forewing 

 with the transverse area between the subbasal and discal lines, and the lower posterior 

 border, blackish ; the basal and apical area also with dai'ker fascia between the lines : 

 hindwing darker than in male. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs blackish, grey speckled ; 

 abdomen also darker, with blackish basal crests. 

 Expanse 25- inches. 



Genus MELIPOTIS. 



Melipotis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 260 (1818-25). 

 Ercheia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1107 (1857). 



Male : forewing elongated, rather broad, costa arched at the end, angular at the 

 apex, exterior margin very oblique, convex, scalloped, posterior margin convex in the 

 middle ; cell extending to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before 

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

 second, and fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from end of the cell, and 

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

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

 cell, lower at nearly one-half before the end; submedian deeply curved from the 

 base: hindwing short, broad, apex and exterior margin convex, scalloped; cell 

 extending to two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 outwartUy oblique, concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from extended 



