122 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



STICTOPTERA TRAJICIENS (Plate 158, Fig. 12). 

 Sleiria trajiciens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1137 (1857), (J. 



Male : forewing purplish gi'eyish-brown, the basal half traversed by pale-centred 

 zigzag black duplex lines longitudinally disposed between the veins ; outer border 

 also traversed by similarly disposed acutely sinuous lines, with white and black 

 angles, followed by a whitish bordered lunular marginal line ; the discal interspace 

 crossed by three or four black waved lines, the inner line crossing the reniform mark 

 of l)lack raised scales : hindwing semihyaline, brownish-white, with a broad dusky 

 brown marginal band ; cilia white. Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs above purplish 

 greyish-brown ; thorax black streaked ; abdomen cinereous-brown, crests blackish ; 

 tarsal bands dark brown. 



Expanse 1-^ inch. 



Genus ^GILIA. 

 ^fjilin, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1138 (1857). 

 Forewing long, narrow, triangular, costa slightly arched towards the end, apex 

 pointed, exterior margin very oblique, convex, and sinuous ; cell extending nearly 

 three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, 

 second at about one-fourth, trifid, third at one-third from base of second, and fourth 

 at one-half from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and joined to third near the 

 base ; discocellular inwardly oblique, concave, radials fi'om upper and lower end ; 

 middle median from angle near end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian 

 recurved : hindwing short ; cell nearly half the length ; two subcostals from end 

 of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from the lower end ; two upper medians 

 from end of the cell, lower at about one-fifth ; submedian and internal vein nearly 

 straight. Body extending half length beyond hindwings ; palpi obliquely ascending, 

 reaching to the vertex, laxly squamose, second joint narrow, third lanceolate, two- 

 thirds the length of second ; anteunis simple ; legs long, laxly squamose, spurs long. 



.ffiGILIA DESCRIBENS. 



yEgilia describem, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1139 (1857). 



" Fawn colour, darker beneath : forewings with transverse oblique zigzag brown 

 lines, which are almost obsolete on the interior side of the reniform spots ; the border 

 of the latter is mostly whitish-testaceous, and there is a blackish dot between its 

 exterior side and the costa ; zigzag submarginal line and marginal streaks whitish- 

 testaceous ; marginal luuules elongated, dark brown : hindwings greyish, vitreous, 

 with a broad cupreous-brown border. 



" Expanse 18 lines." 



