128 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



end of the cell ; discocellular very obliquely concave, radial from near lower end ; 

 two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-fourth before the end ; sub- 

 median and internal slightly curved. Body stout ; palpi slightly ascending, stout, 

 coarsely squamose, second joint thick, of uniform width, third joint thick, short, 

 cylindrical ; antennae long, minutely pectinated ; legs stout, fore tibiae pilose beneath, 

 middle femora fi-inged beneath, with inner rows of short spines above, hind legs 

 shghtly pilose, tibiae spined ; tarsi long. {Ti/pe, C. Fraxini.) 



CATOCALA RAMA (Plate 160, Fig. 6). 



Forewing violaceous-grey, numerously speckled with violet-brown scales ; crossed 

 by a dark violet-brown short basal costal zigzag line, two antemedial narrow zigzag 

 bands, and a prominent black slender discal sinuous line with outwardly prolonged 

 points above and below the lower radial ; veins within the medial area and beyond 

 the discal line also black ; a broad violet-brown fascia across the medial area, another 

 beyond the discal line, and a third on the marginal border ; a greyish-white black- 

 speckled broad reniform mark : hindwing ochreous-yellow, with a narrow transverse 

 curved short medial blackish band, and a broad marginal band, with a narrow pale 

 ochreous subapical and a subanal marginal streak ; cilia white. Thorax, head, palpi, 

 and legs violaceous-grey, speckled with brown ; front of thorax, and side of palpi 

 dark brown ; tegulae bordered with brown scales ; abdomen pale brown ; tip of fore 

 tibifB, and also the tarsi with black bands. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Genus BLENINA. 

 Blenina, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1214 (1857). 

 Forewing rather short, elliptic, costa slightly arched from the base, apes not 

 acute, exterior margin very moderately oblique, slightly convex, posterior margin 

 rounded towards the base ; cell narrow, disposed towards middle of the wing, 

 extending to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the 

 cell, second at one-fifth, bifid, fourth from end of the cell, bifid, slightly touching 

 third near its base, the fifth being thrown off from the fourth at some distance from 

 below its juncture with the third ; discocellular outwardly oblique, slightly concave, 

 radials from upper end and near lower end ; middle median from angle close to end 

 of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end; submedian arched from the base, 

 extending midway between the median and posterior margin : hindwing short, broad, 

 apex and exterior margin convex, undulated ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular outwardly oblique, concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians 

 from extended lower end of the cell, lower from close to the end ; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Body stout, abdomen thick, dorsally crested at the base ; 



